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— "Rebirth: People, Places and Culture in New Orleans." New Orleans: National Trust for Historic Preservation and Tulane University, 2006. (PDF file) New Orleans is a distinctive cultural treasure because of the cultural life of its people as expressed in traditions such as Mardi Indian pageantry, Second Line dancing, and jazz funerals. These traditions are community-based, born in and fundamentally sustained by community associations like social aid and pleasure clubs and benevolent societies. Because these forms of expression come alive when the communities they come from are strong and cohesive, it is by rebuilding whole communities that these traditions ultimately will survive. This report defines priorities and sketches the outline of a plan for facing the challenge of providing structure and resources to the informal and folk arts that are so precious to New Orleans and that mark its place as an international cultural treasure. |
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