{"id":5271,"date":"2015-08-23T18:24:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T18:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/?p=5271"},"modified":"2015-08-23T18:24:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T18:24:53","slug":"new-orleans-ten-years-after-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/23\/new-orleans-ten-years-after-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans, Ten Years Past The Flood: Resilience Follies, Prelude: Back In NOLA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n<\/a>I arrived this morning in New Orleans, where I am going to resist the urge to use \u201cdeluge\u201d or similar words to describe the press coverage surrounding August 29th<\/sup>, which marks a decade since, well, the deluge.<\/div>\n
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As I say in my piece, up today at Salon<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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\u201cAug. 29 will mark a decade since the 2005 disaster that we\u2019ve come to know by the name Katrina \u2014 for the hurricane, a natural disaster \u2014 but that is more accurately understood as unnameable and unnatural, a failure of engineering and due diligence followed by a long wake of indifference or worse.\u201d<\/div>\n
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So the picture above, which you’ll see versions of all week, is a dodge: The real story is the failure of the federal levees, and all that followed.<\/div>\n
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In my Salon piece, I recalled that, when I returned to New Orleans to the mark the fifth anniversary of the flood, the word \u201cresilience\u201d popped up nearly everywhere\u2014in city-sponsored press conferences, and on signs tacked to lampposts that read: \u201cStop calling me RESILIENT. Because every time you say, \u2018Oh, they\u2019re so resilient,\u2019 that means you can do something else to me.\u201d<\/div>\n
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That word is omnipresent now\u2014on tote bags and on the lips of politicans. Ill get into that more in future posts. For now, I’m titling this series “Resilience Follies.”<\/div>\n
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In Salon,\u00a0I say this, too:<\/div>\n
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\u201cWithin all the hoopla to come, expect trumpets and trombones and tubas and second-line parades in progress. The storied jazz culture of New Orleans will again provide prominent B-roll for TV. That culture belongs in the foreground.\u201d\u00a0That\u2019s where I attempt to place New Orleans jazz culture, which helped carry the city back and yet now finds itself too often embattled or displaced.”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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So I\u2019ve returned to Salon, where I filed an October 2005 essay<\/a> that sent me on a decade-long journey, to take stock and tell truths.<\/div>\n
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And I\u2019ve returned to New Orleans, where I will moderate a panel discussion tomorrow<\/a> (Monday, Aug. 24), gathering musicians and others at the heart of this culture.\u00a0The conversation will be webcast\u00a0live on WWOZ 90.7FM (go here<\/a>).<\/div>\n
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Below are details about the panel:<\/div>\n
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The Crescent City Cultural Continuity Conservancy (C5)\u00a0<\/b>presents<\/i><\/div>\n
TEN YEARS AFTER:\u00a0<\/b>THE STATE OF NEW ORLEANS\u00a0MUSIC AND CULTURE<\/div>\n
Monday, August 24 | 6:30-8:30pm | Basin St. Station<\/div>\n
501 Basin St, New Orleans, LA 70112<\/div>\n
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Panelists:<\/b>\u00a0Evan Christopher<\/b>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Clarinetist, composer and advocate for New Orleans\u00a0culture and the city\u2019s indigenous music traditions;\u00a0Lolis Eric Elie<\/b>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Author; formerTimes-Picayune\u00a0<\/i>columnist;\u00a0co-producer,\u00a0Faubourg Treme: the Untold Story of Black New Orleans<\/i>;\u00a0story editor, HBO\u2019s\u00a0Treme;<\/i>\u00a0Jordan Hirsch\u2014<\/b>\u00a0Writer and advocate for New Orleans\u2019 cultural tradition bearers;\u00a0founding Director of Sweet Home New Orleans;\u00a0staff writer for HBO’s\u00a0Treme;<\/i>\u00a0Tamara Jackson\u2014<\/b>\u00a0President of the Social Aid & Pleasure Club Task Force;\u00a0President of the VIP Ladies & Kids;\u00a0Executive Director of Silence is Violence, a nonprofit campaign for peace in New Orleans;\u00a0Fred Johnson<\/b>\u2014\u00a0Director, the Neighborhood Development Foundation;\u00a0founding member of the Black Men of Labor;\u00a0former spy boy with the Yellow Pocahontas Mardi Gras Indian gang;Howard Miller\u2014<\/b>\u00a0Chief, Creole Wild West;\u00a0President of the Mardi Gras Indian Council;\u00a0veteran carpenter\u00a0;\u00a0Bennie Pete<\/b>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Founding member, leader & sousaphone player, Hot 8 Brass Band.<\/div>\n
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I arrived this morning in New Orleans, where I am going to resist the urge to use \u201cdeluge\u201d or similar words to describe the press coverage surrounding August 29th, which marks a decade since, well, the deluge. As I say in my piece, up today at Salon: \u201cAug. 29 will mark a decade since the … <\/p>\n

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