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sound of treme: episode 18: dynastic
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Decoding music and culture references in the HBO series Treme: brass bands, jazz funerals, second line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, and nightclubs. Monday, June 13, 2011. When the aptly named Antoine Batiste confesses to Desiree that he "failed" his sons by not teaching them music and passing on the family legacy. The other cultural dynasty on Treme. Is the Lambreauxs: Mardi Gras Indian chief Albert and his trumpet toting son Delmond. Their characters are loosely based on the Harrison family. An attempt ...
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sound of treme: April 2011
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Decoding music and culture references in the HBO series Treme: brass bands, jazz funerals, second line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, and nightclubs. Monday, April 25, 2011. In Fall 2007, I collaborated on a brass band workshop. On May 22, 2008, Roots of Music launched with Derrick, Lawrence Rawlins, Allen Dejan, and Shoan Ruffin teaching about 40 kids aged 9-14 the rudiments of music. Our talks with the school district had gone nowhere but Tipitina's. And their uncle is trombonist 'Big' Sam Williams.
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sound of treme: July 2011
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Decoding music and culture references in the HBO series Treme: brass bands, jazz funerals, second line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, and nightclubs. Sunday, July 3, 2011. Life in New Orleans can be surreal and Treme. Has made it all the more so. Take the Davis character: Steve Zahn acting out Davis Rogan's life as the bandleader of All That. With real band members (Kirk Joseph, Alex McMurray, Tyrus Chapman) is weird enough, but then Rogan himself is on keyboards? Effects and tr é. Vus pile up week after w...
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sound of treme: episode 16: taxing
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Decoding music and culture references in the HBO series Treme: brass bands, jazz funerals, second line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, and nightclubs. Monday, May 30, 2011. In the immediate aftermath of Katrina, there was concern that New Orleans' distinctive culture might not return:. Mardi Gras Indian chiefs moved to places like Austin. Threatening to relocate their tradition beyond the city limits of their hometown for the first time. ( Treme. High school marching bands weren't able to march. Was organiz...
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sound of treme: episode 11: interventions
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Decoding music and culture references in the HBO series Treme: brass bands, jazz funerals, second line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, and nightclubs. Monday, April 25, 2011. In Fall 2007, I collaborated on a brass band workshop. On May 22, 2008, Roots of Music launched with Derrick, Lawrence Rawlins, Allen Dejan, and Shoan Ruffin teaching about 40 kids aged 9-14 the rudiments of music. Our talks with the school district had gone nowhere but Tipitina's. And their uncle is trombonist 'Big' Sam Williams.
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sound of treme: episode 15: surreality
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Decoding music and culture references in the HBO series Treme: brass bands, jazz funerals, second line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, and nightclubs. Monday, May 23, 2011. The weeks surrounding New Years 2007 were positively gut wrenching. New Orleanians who had suffered the trauma of the flood, navigated through systemic failure of the government response, and summoned the emotional resiliency needed to rebuild, now saw violence return to the city with a vengeance. With the prophetic line. A filmmaker who...
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sound of treme: episode 17: francophonic
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Decoding music and culture references in the HBO series Treme: brass bands, jazz funerals, second line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, and nightclubs. Monday, June 6, 2011. Its Carnival Time on Treme. This week and we get an eyeful of New Orleans delights. There are the massive parades thrown by Mardi Gras krewes, such as Rex. The exclusive club with elite members along the lines of Davis' dad; Zulu. The historically black krewe that let Senor Hidalgo in to throw a few coconuts. Though the Cajuns descended ...
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sound of treme: episode 20: ubiquity
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Decoding music and culture references in the HBO series Treme: brass bands, jazz funerals, second line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, and nightclubs. Monday, June 27, 2011. Robert, the curious trumpeter getting his start in marching band, tells his teacher Antoine Batiste that he and his fellow bandmates "want to play on the street like the Baby Boyz." The Baby Boyz. Is the youngest of a new generation of local brass bands. Is pinning his hopes on Antoine to get him started playing in the streets. Chief La...
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sound of treme: episode 21: finale
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Decoding music and culture references in the HBO series Treme: brass bands, jazz funerals, second line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, and nightclubs. Sunday, July 3, 2011. Life in New Orleans can be surreal and Treme. Has made it all the more so. Take the Davis character: Steve Zahn acting out Davis Rogan's life as the bandleader of All That. With real band members (Kirk Joseph, Alex McMurray, Tyrus Chapman) is weird enough, but then Rogan himself is on keyboards? Effects and tr é. Vus pile up week after w...
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sound of treme: episode 19: feelgood
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Decoding music and culture references in the HBO series Treme: brass bands, jazz funerals, second line parades, Mardi Gras Indians, and nightclubs. Monday, June 20, 2011. It's good for your body. And good for your soul. Feel good music is the backbone of New Orleans and there is a bottomless reserve of the stuff for the hard-knock characters on Treme. Wanda Rouzan and Antoine's Soul Apostles break out " Mr. Big Stuff. The laid-back funk standard by New Orleanians' Jean Knight. Dancing to “good-time...