Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians
- ISBN-10
- 1496825926
- ISBN-13
- 9781496825926
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-11-15
- Publisher
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
- Authors
- John McCusker, Shane Lief
Description
Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians celebrates the transcendent experience of Mardi Gras, encompassing both ancient and current traditions of New Orleans. The Mardi Gras Indians are a renowned and beloved fixture of New Orleans public culture. Yet very little is known about the indigenous roots of their cultural practices. For the first time, this book explores the Native American ceremonial traditions that influenced the development of the Mardi Gras Indian cultural system. Jockomo reveals the complex story of exchanges that have taken place over the past three centuries, generating new ways of singing and speaking, with many languages mixing as people’s lives overlapped. Contemporary photographs by John McCusker and archival images combine to offer a complementary narrative to the text. From the depictions of eighteenth-century Native American musical processions to the first known photo of Mardi Gras Indians, Jockomo is a visual feast, displaying the evolution of cultural traditions throughout the history of New Orleans. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Mardi Gras Indians had become a recognized local tradition. Over the course of the next one hundred years, their unique practices would move from the periphery to the very center of public consciousness as a quintessentially New Orleanian form of music and performance, even while retaining some of the most ancient features of Native American culture and language. Jockomo offers a new way of seeing and hearing the blended legacies of New Orleans.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2019-11-15
- 192 pages
- Ebook
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
Similar books
-
Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians
By Shane Lief, John P. McCuskerYet very little is known about the indigenous roots of their cultural practices. For the first time, this book explores the native ceremonial traditions that influenced the development of the Mardi Gras Indian culture and system.
-
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
By Alan Trist, David G. DoddThe Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is an authoritative text, providing standard versions of all the original songs you thought you knew forwards and backwards. These are some of the best-loved songs in the modern American songbook.
-
Heart of Courage: The Narscix War
By Joseph Zdenek“Woodsmen,” Jockomo said after following Rho's stare. “Hunters and trackers. They keep an eye out on our surroundings also. That's how we found you.” With a nod from Arrigo, the two woodsmen hurried into the darkness of the woods.
-
Battleground
By Linda Kondracki Sibley, Laurie Butts, Gail Mauebe ني 19 بین Co ១ si CE 1 1 1 Jockomo : Scared has a real problem ! How can we help ? Kid # 1 : If the kid won't listen , she should punch him out . That should make him pay attention ! Kid # 2 : Oh , right ! Big help that would be !
-
The Bed I Lie On: A Novel
By Art Lester“What about Jockomo?” “Dead is what. Run over drunk. Be good now.” There had been four of us. The joke ran that we were the Gospel Gang: Matthew, Mark, Luke and Jockomo. Mark was a Jewish kid from Pennsylvania, the intellectual of the ...
-
Talking about Movies with Jesus: Poems
By David KirbyI am grateful to all artists named Jacopo or Giacomo because they remind me of the Neville Brothers singing “Jockomo fee na nay/Jockomo fee na nay / If you don't like what the Big Chief say/You got to jockomo fee nay nay!
-
Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward
By Ruth SalvaggioThe book also directs us to the lyric call of poetry, the voice always in search of a listener.
-
How My Prank Stories In Social Media Web Sites Got Me Committed In The Psychiatric Ward At Bellevue Hospital
By Jimmy CorreaByeeeeeeeee, J, aka Jockomo Randy Newman—Short People (1978) Hey Jackomo, you have 2 comb your hair a little better, I don't like spiky hair . . . . hahaha . . . Youuuuu and your messages make me laugh so hard .
-
The Glass Pond
By Kenneth KingI had one really unusual dream about Jockomo.” “Tell me.” “I was at some kind of a rock concert that could have also been a religious or initiation ceremony, but I could only catch a glimpse of the crowd surrounding the stage because I ...
-
Revolutionary Freedoms: A History of Survival, Strength and Imagination in Haiti
By Jessica Adams, Cécile Accilien, Elmide MéléanceWhile the majority of Haitian women today do not have the luxury of talking about feminism because they are focused on trying to survive, they live feminism in their daily struggles. A Haitian proverb states "fanm gen nefso pou li pran ...