Dancing in the Streets: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans
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Dancing in the Streets: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans
Every Sunday from late August to Father's Day, a second line parade snakes through the neighborhoods and backstreets of New Orleans. The parades are hosted by social aid and pleasure clubs (SAPCs), civic organizations that have been fixtures in Black New Orleans since the nineteenth century. Born out of the funeral parades hosted by pre-Civil War benevolent associations, the second line tradition...
Judy Cooper is a photographer living and working in New Orleans. She has presented solo shows in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Chicago, Houston, New York, and Kaunas, Lithuania. A major exhibition of her work, Living Color: Photographs by Judy Cooper, was shown at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 2008.
Rachel Carrico is Assistant Professor of Dance Studies in the School of Theatre and Dance at the...
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