New Orleans is a musical city where sound is inextricable from the experience of place. Sound has played a defining role in distinctive cultural practices such as jazz funerals and parades called “second lines,” in which African Americans have made claims on the contested city streets for over a century. How will New Orleans re-sound after extraordinary forces claimed those same streets?
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