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THE PUBLISHER GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS BOOK MADE BY THE FOLLOWING GROUPS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ:
Music and Culture in Transition
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But here is what we think it means to read this book from front to back, with the idea of a suite (and a jam session) in mind. The first section of photographs provides a foundation for those that follow. It portrays the atmosphere of the city, the cultural practices and environmental conditions that Lewis encountered and was directed to by many friends and acquaintances in visits over the years. Most of the photographs in this section predate Katrina, although he also includes a few post-Katrina images that reflect enduring qualities that have survived the natural and human-made disasters. Eric’s written sections 1 and 2 are also foundational. In section 1, “New Orleans, America, Music,” he provides a brief meditation on the political, social, cultural, and moral scene one must engage with when writing about New Orleans and its music post Katrina. Section 2, “Reflections on Jazz Fest 2006,” conveys some of our impressions of the first iteration of this event after Katrina. The key issue Eric ponders here is the complicated notion that “the culture” can enable the reconstruction of New Orleans, which is a recurring theme in the words and images.
One crucial component of our shared data is the specific destruction wrought by the storm and levee breaks and what many have described as the additional catastrophe caused by the response to the crisis by the government and local elites. Eric tells some of that story briefly in sections 1 and 2, and Lewis expands upon it in the first section of the large group of photographs that follow. There he uses his long-term interest in the “cultural landscape” as a filter for reacting to the specific effects of the storm on the environment. He reflects further upon its impact on local culture and the ways people responded, for better and for worse. Some photos are from several weeks after the storm, while a number were taken during the spring 2006 trip, when Eric was also present. Their shared conversation while traveling through the city on this visit shaped each contributor’s analysis of what they encountered and thus also became part of the shared data for the suite.
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