Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan By showing how literary reading

By showing how literary reading sets in motion a tense interplay of intimacy and exclusion

Readers follow along as the baby loon grows and discovers the world around her

Their broad range of concerns include nomadic herders' music and instrument building

Rosenberg's subsequent experiences in Bean Blossom put his feet on the intertwined musical and scholarly paths that made him a preeminent scholar of bluegrass music

and their writing has an elegiac quality

Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan By showing how literary readingOn many Sundays, Black New Orleanians dance through city streets in Second Lines. These processions invite would be spectators to join in, grooving to an ambulatory brass band for several hours. Though an increasingly popular attraction for tourists, parading provides the second liners themselves with a potent public expression of Black resistance. Rachel Carrico examines the parading bodies in motion as a form of negotiating and understanding power.