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‘City of a Million Dreams’ looks at New Orleans through lens of jazz funerals

Por: The Boston Globe Life June 15, 2023

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New Orleans funeral parades — with their jubilant brass bands, “second-line” dancers, and colorful costumes — “are caravans of memory,” native New Orleanian writes in his book “City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300.” The 2018 book uses funerary traditions as a lens on that history going back to the city’s founding — through the civil rights era, and the ravages of Hurricane Katrina — to nearly the... + full article



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