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Hardcover Dancing in the Streets: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans Book

ISBN: 0917860829

ISBN13: 9780917860829

Dancing in the Streets: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans

Every Sunday from late August to Father's Day, a second line parade snakes through the neighborhoods and backstreets of New Orleans. The parades are hosted by social aid and pleasure clubs (SAPCs), civic organizations that have been fixtures in Black New Orleans since the nineteenth century. Born out of the funeral parades hosted by pre-Civil War benevolent associations, the second line tradition has persisted through Reconstruction, Jim Crow,...

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