Blackness and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line

Popular memorial practices, including traditional jazz funeral processions, are continually being refashioned and re‐appropriated for devotional, commercial, and political purposes in New Orleans. Belying nostalgic representations of the jazz funeral as a “dying tradition,” neighborhood‐based parades produced by working‐class African Americans continue to provide a space for the articulation of local subjectivities, particularly for those most affected by the violence of contemporary urban life, [blackness, memory, New Orleans, urban space, performance, violence, heritage]