Books Celebrating the African American Folk Culture of New Orleans

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Love learning about the cultures of a historic city? I definitely suggest you start with New Orleans, especially if you want to explore African American Folk culture. This city is rich with religious, musical and art folk culture that influences so much of the culture of America and the world. Check out these Books Celebrating the African American Folk Culture of New Orleans today. Be sure to add them to your library and coffee table collection and share them with us on social media using the hashtag @blacksouthernbelle

Spirit World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of New Orleans

Documents the thriving cultural richness of black New Orleans and captures the expressions of urban black folk culture.

The Spiritual Churches Of New Orleans: Origins, Beliefs, And Rituals Of An African American

The New Orleans Spiritual churches constitute a distinctive African-American belief system. Influenced by Catholicism, Pentecostalism, Spiritualism, and Voodoo, the group is a New World syncretic faith, similar to Espiritismo, Santería, and Umbanda. The Spiritual Churches of New Orleans combines a historical account of the emergence of this religion with careful ethnographic description of current congregations. At the same time, text and photographs eloquently convey the ecstasy at the heart of the Spiritual experience.

A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau

In separating verifiable fact from semi-truths and complete fabrication, Long explores the unique social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Marie Laveau’s African and European ancestors became intertwined. Changes in New Orleans engendered by French and Spanish rule, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow segregation affected seven generations of Laveau’s family, from enslaved great-grandparents of pure African blood to great-grandchildren who were legally classified as white. Simultaneously, Long examines the evolution of New Orleans Voudou, which until recently has been ignored by scholars.

In the Spirit: The Photography of Michael P. Smith from the Historic New Orleans Collection 

In the spring of 2007, The Historic New Orleans Collection acquired the archive of photographer Michael P. Smith, ensuring both its long term preservation and ultimate public access. Through photographs, field recordings, journals, correspondence, printed ephemera, and other documents, Smith s professional and personal interests offer an extended gaze into the world of spiritual churches, Mardi Gras Indians, and traditional jazz funerals, as well as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which Smith photographed without interruption from 1970 2004.The trove of Michael P. Smith archival material now housed at The Historic New Orleans Collection provides the basis for two exhibitions under the single title: In the Spirit: The Photography of Michael P. Smith from The Historic New Orleans Collection. Beyond the Music at The Historic New Orleans Collection focuses on the breadth of Smith s nearly forty-year career. Twenty-Five Jazz Fests at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center spotlights Smith s photographs of performers at the world-renowned New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The exhibition catalog for In the Spirit: The Photography of Michael P. Smith from The Historic New Orleans Collection features essays by Jason Berry, Dan Cameron, and John Lawrence and Jude Solomon and includes a selection of nearly 100 Michael P. Smith photographs from both exhibition venues. [/et_pb_text] [/et_pb_column] [/et_pb_row] [/et_pb_section]

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