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On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing
Ist Teil von
American quarterly, 2009-09, Vol.61 (3), p.649-669
Ort / Verlag
College Park: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Stepping outside the canonical readings of New Orleans musical and religious culture, I will argue that this native daughter of New Orleans speaks forward in time, conjuring into existence a communal hope that critiques the politics, representation, and rememory of Katrina.1 Born in 1911, Mahalia Jackson was reared in a shotgun shack of a New Orleans house situated between Water and Audubon streets facing the river between the levee and the busy City Belt Railroad tracks.2 Jackson's description of her childhood environment coincides with the contemporary poverty of New Orleans's Ninth Ward: Jackson not only grasped the ways the church informed her own style as a gospel singer, but she also perceived the ways black sacred musical performance informed other genres of music, and she held an acute understanding of how the rhythms of slavery continued to echo across musical genres and inform contemporary musical expressions.