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With this book Turner issues both a warning and reassurance that while post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans is changing, the vibrant traditions of jazz religion and second lines must continue.
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~Journal of African American History
"People who were there should read this book. People who were not there must read it."
~PopMatters
"I highly recommend this text to undergrads, grads, faculty, and researchers. Its pages unfold critical analysis for the advanced scholar, and its prose makes clear a complex culture to the casual learner."
~Journal of African American Studies
"Turner straddles religion, music, the performance arts, languages, nationalities, and identities skillfully . . . with aplomb, with brio, in a language all his own that sings."
~Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, editor of Haitian Vodou
"A well-written, well-researched, thoughtful, and generative book."
~George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara