Fall 2018
Listening to 300 Years of New Orleans Music: Playlist
Songs that inspired our tricentennial music issue
Articles
Fall 2018
The Next Generation Considers the Next 300 Years
Tulane 2018 graduate Justin Gitelman spoke to members of the New Orleans music scene's next generation. Read what they had to say, and listen to his interview with NOCCA and Berklee grad Khris Royal.
Fall 2018
High Society and the Myth of the Jazz Festival
Newport may not be Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden, but the film’s plot revolves around the myth of the festival as a way to turn sorrow to joy and bring the major players to romantic bliss
Fall 2018
New Orleans Jazz Makes Room for All the Grooves
New Orleans has an unfair reputation as a city where the only jazz that people play is a century old
Fall 2018
Echoing Your Voice: Trent Reznor’s New Orleans Sojourn Leaves a Mark
Reznor was damaged goods when he moved to New Orleans in 1995
Fall 2018
Ha
The video for Juvenile's hit shows a community that was often ignored, despite the enormous contributions it was destined to make to popular music and culture in the United States
Fall 2018
A-Maze-Ing: The Legacy of Maze featuring Frankie Beverly in New Orleans
Generations of black New Orleanians have made the band one of their favorites of all time
Fall 2018
The Captain of Moving Crowds: DJ Captain Charles
Over thirty years, the DJ has impacted local music as much as traditional musical royalty
Fall 2018
Child’s Play
Of all the choices that young people make, they almost never regret the music
Fall 2018
Canal Street: A Hemispheric Boundary
That uptown–downtown negotiation wasn’t just a local one. It was tectonic: the two great cultural regions of the hemisphere were crunching into one another.
