Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: crossing the threshold
  • Introduction: forward motion
  • Chapter 1. Onward and upward. A funeral fit for a Duke ; An eventful history ; Second lining with Rebirth ; Developments in the Treme ; The Bass Brothers ; Lives in motion ; When this life is over ; Voices and instruments ; Life at the top
  • Chapter 2. Constraints. Down on the corner ; Where culture means business ; Bennie's dilemma ; The business of culture
  • Chapter 3. Progressions. You don't want to go to war ; A renaissance ; Tradition on parade ; Music by any means necessary ; Productive friction
  • Chapter 4. Voices. Structural violence, interpersonal violence, and musical articulation ; Joseph "Shotgun" Williams ; Why dey had to kill him? ; Dinerral Jevone Shavers ; Voices and instruments at Dinerral's funeral ; Voices amplified, muffled, and distorted ; Voices lost and found
  • Conclusion: engagements
  • Afterword: image and music in the art of Willie Birch / Willie Birch and Matt Sakakeeny.