(Re)working subjectivities and social-spatial interactions in the urban landscape: The Camel Toe Lady Steppers Parade in New Orleans Mardi Gras

Sheehan, Rebecca

doi:10.1007/s10708-022-10743-z

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“…It goes against the spirit of the entire event." The public culture of New Orleans has long displayed such hierarchy overtly in events like Mardi Gras parades, with elites riding on floats high above the streets and throwing trinkets to the crowds below (Sheehan 2022). In contrast, Jazz Fest was, from its inception, inspired by the egalitarian and participatory character of Black second-line parades and the democratic impulse of jazz music itself.…”

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Laugh—cry, eat—drink, dance! Tracing belonging through cartographies of joy

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Walton

2023

Anthropology and Humanism

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SummaryThis article explores joy, identity, and belonging at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival through an ethnographic project inviting festgoers and staff members to draw, sketch, or map their experiences and journeys through festival landscapes. Building on scholarship in visual, humanistic, and post‐humanist anthropology, we view map‐making as an emergent strategy for performative epistemology, a way of making and thinking together. In a festival with a strong visual culture that centers African American music and cultural heritage, drawings often reflect racialized landscapes and subjectivities. Maps reveal the centrality of affect in festival experiences while affording insights into what makes joy complicated. For some, festival sociality brings those tensions to the fore while making it possible for others to imagine a world otherwise.

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confidence: 99%