Winter 2017
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The cover story of the Winter 2017 issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas explored the Creole trail riding clubs of southwest Louisiana through the lens of Jeremiah Ariaz and the words of Alexandra Giancarlo.
Other features include:
- Freedom’s Filmmaker by Katy Reckdahl: Remembering Royce Osborn, director of the classic documentary, All on a Mardi Gras Day.
- Poems from new Louisiana Poet Laureate Jack Bedell.
- Spiritual Elite by Melissa Daggett: Influential citizens were attracted to seance circles hosted by black Creoles in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
- Lost Highway by John Wirt: Fifty years after her death, reconstructing Jayne Mansfield’s last days in Louisiana.
Plus these regular columns:
- Publisher’s Column: A Message from Puerto Rico by César Rey Hernández, Director Ejecutivo de la Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades.
- Sound Advice: Commodifying Traditional Music by Ben Sandmel: The prolific, controversial career of Ralph S. Peer.
- Geographer’s Space: The French Language in Louisiana and Quebec by Richard Campanella: An interview with French Canadian Lisanne Gamelin.
- Disturbance in Your Mind: Interview with a Vampire Scholar by Alison Fensterstock: An investigation of New Orleans vampire lore.
- Lost Lit: Fatima Shaik’s The Mayor of New Orleans by Rien Fertel: Revisiting the unlikely there and back again tale of Walter Watson Lameir.
- Book Review: The Historical Section by Brian Boyles: A look at Images of Depression-Era Louisiana from LSU Press.
With stories by our partners at the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Louisiana State Museum, Shreveport Regional Arts Council, and CODOFIL.
The Winter 2017 of Louisiana Cultural Vistas is available $5.95 plus shipping. Click here to order via email or call toll free in Louisiana 1.800.909.7990 or 504.523.4352 ext. 110.
Contents
The French Language in Louisiana and Quebec
The New Cartographers
Weaving a Trail
The Rising Marée that Lifts All Bateaux
Departments
The current issue of 64 Parishes is available for $6.95 plus tax and a $5 shipping and handling fee. Back issues of 64 Parishes and Louisiana Cultural Vistas are available for $7.95 plus tax and a $5 shipping and handling fee. Note that supplies are limited on some issues. To order call 504-523-4352 or email [email protected].
Articles
Winter 2017
Lost Highway
Jayne Mansfield's last days in Louisiana.
Winter 2017
Interview: Pat Mire
An interview with Pat Mire as he celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of his landmark documentary, Dance for a Chicken
Review
Book Review: Images of Depression-Era Louisiana
New collection showcases three photographers from New Deal agency
Winter 2017
Weaving a Trail
Artist Nick Cave weaves a trail in an uncommon tale of acceptance
Review
The Historical Section
Photographs of Depression-era Louisiana capture a state on the verge of great change
Winter 2017
Voices of the City
The Historic New Orleans Collection oral histories spark WWNO series
Winter 2017
A Carnival Visionary
Louis Andrews Fischer was a Carnival visionary who designed iconic costumes, floats, and sets for Mardi Gras balls
Winter 2017
The Rising Marée that Lifts All Bateaux
French immersion schools fuel bilingual economy
Winter 2017
Fatima Shaik's The Mayor of New Orleans
"The novella is a critique of race, art, and politics that stings as much, if not more so, today than it did three decades ago."
Disturbance in Your Mind
Interview with a Vampire Scholar
Coastal
The New Cartographers
Coastal communities in Plaquemines Parish plot the future with LA SAFE
Winter 2017
Deep Cuts
The Ogden Museum of Art presents Prospect 4 and spotlights artist John T. Scott
Winter 2017
Riders
Photographer Jeremiah Ariaz and writer Alexandra Giancarlo explore the long standing traditions of riders in Southwest Louisiana's Creole trail riding clubs
Geographer's Space
The French Language in Louisiana and Quebec
Richard Campanella initiates a cross cultural connection in an interview with French Canadian Lisanne Gamelin
Winter 2017
A Message from Puerto Rico
This issue's Publisher's Column features a letter from César Rey Hernández, Director Ejecutivo de la Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades.
Winter 2017
Freedom's Filmmaker
Remembering Royce Osborn
Sound Advice
Commodifying Traditional Music
The prolific, controversial career of Ralph S. Peer
