Summer 2023 • Issue 20
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Publicity photo of Louis Prima with a trumpet. Hogan Jazz Archive, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University.
Contents
Cajun Culture Bearers
The Rost Home Colony
Louis Prima and the Sicilian Sound
Liberation on Their Own Terms
A Bar Called Charlene’s
A Scholar and an Advocate
A Champion in the Senate
Hands in Sacred Dirt
Sharing the Range
The Power of One
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