Ethnography of Performance and Identity In New Orleans and French Louisiana

Readings:

• “Folklore” and “What is Folklore,” by William Thoms, The Study of Folklore, edited by Alan Dundes (1975)
• “The Complex Relations of Simple Forms” by Roger Abrahams, Genre 2 (1970)
• “Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context,” by Dan Ben-Amos in Toward New Perspectives in Folklore (1975), eds. Richard Bauman and Americo Parades, pp 3-15.
• “Differential Identity and the Social Base of Folklore,” by Richard Bauman, in Toward New Perspectives in Folklore (1975), pp 31-41, 1975
• “Introduction to the Third Printing,” by Nick Spitzer and Robert Baron in Public Folklore, pp. vii-xx, 2007;
• Nick Spitzer, “Cultural Conversation: Methods and Metaphors in Public Folklore” in Public Folklore (1992), pp.

Readings:

• Lawrence Gushee, “The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Jazz,” Black Music Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 1994), 1-24
• Thomas Fiehrer, “From Quadrille to Stomp: The Creole Origins of Jazz,” Popular Music, vol. 10 (January 1991), 21-38;
• Sakakeeny, Matt. 2010. “Under the Bridge”: An Orientation to Soundscapes in New Orleans. Ethnomusicology 54(1); 2011.
• “New Orleans Music as a Circulatory System.” Black Music Research Journal 31(2): 291-325.

Readings:

• Building the Devil’s Empire: French Colonial New Orleans. Shannon Lee Dawdy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2009. “Part I: The French and African Founders Johnson and Hall”, includes “Introduction”” by Arnold Hirsh and Joe
• Logsdon, pp 3-11; Colonial New Orleans: A Fragment of the Eighteenth Century
• “French Ethos” by Jerah Johnson, pp. 12-57; and “The Formation of Afro-Creole Culture” by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, pp 58-90 in Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization. Edited by Arnold Hirsh and Joseph Logdson, 1992.

Readings: 

• French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana, by Carl Brasseaux, Baton Rouge: LSU Press.
• Three articles from Louisiana Folklife–A Guide to the State (edited by Nick Spitzer, 1985): “Louisiana Folk Houses” by Milton Newton, “Folk Boats of Louisiana” by Malcolm Comeaux, and “Louisiana Folk Crafts” by Frank deCaro, Rosan Jordan, Susan Roach and Nick Spitzer.

Readings:

• Barry Ancelet and Elemore Morgan Jr .Cajun and Creole Music Makers University Press of Mississippi: Jackson. Spitzer, Nick.
• “The Aesthetics of Work and Play in Creole New Orleans,” in Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans, pp.. Edited by John Ethan Hankins and Stephen Maklansky, New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2002.
• Negro Ironworkers of Louisiana 1718-1900. Marcus Christian.

Readings:

• “Introduction” in Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory. Edited by Charles Stewart. Walnut Creek CA: Left Coast Press 2007. Kein, Dunbar-Nelson, and Martin in Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s
• “Free People of Color”. Edited by Sybil Kein. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2003
• Felipé Smith “Coming of Age in Creole New Orleans: an Ethnohistory”
• Virginia R. Dominguez “White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole “
• “Louisiana,” in American Ethnologist.  Nick Spitzer.
• “Monde Créole: Louisiana Creoles and the Creolization of World Cultures” in Creolization as Cultural Creativity, edited by Robert Baron and Ana Cara. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press 2011

Readings:

“Mr. Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton”, “New Orleans Creole,” and the “Inventor of Jazz.” Up from the Cradle of Jazz.  Jason Barry, Jon Foose, and Tad Jones, Lafayette: University of Louisiana Press 2009 (1983).

Readings:

• “Second Lines, Minstrelsy, and the Contested Landscapes of New Orleans Afro-Creole Festivals,” by Helen A. Regis in Cultural Anthropology 1999: 14(4): 472-504.
• “Second Lining Post-Katrina: Learning Community from the Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club” by Joel Dinerstein in American Quarterly pp. 615-637 61 (3) 2009.
• “Producing the Folk at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival,” by Helen A. Regis and Shana Walton in Journal of American Folklore 2008: 121 (482) pp. 400-440.
• “Introduction” selected profiles in One Generation at a Time: Biography of a Cajun and Creole Music Festival, by Barry Ancelet Lafayette: University of Louisiana Press, 2007.
• “Rebuilding the Land of Dreams with Music” by Nick Spitzer in Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. Eds. Eugenie Birch and Susan Wachter, University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 2006; “Epilog: Cultural
• “Creativity, Return and Recovery in New Orleans” by Nick Spitzer in Creolization as Cultural Creativity, edited by Robert Baron and Ana Cara. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press 2011.