Beim Vergleich der handschriftlichen Musiknoten des Dipper Mouth Blues und der berühmten Aufnahme von King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band wird offensichtlich, dass es sich bei den Noten nicht um ein Leadsheet im Sinne einer Spielpartitur handelt. Die Aufnahme des Stücks mit dem Bandleader und Kornettisten King Oliver, dem Kornettisten Louis Armstrong, dem Posaunisten Honoré Dutrey, dem Klarinettisten Johnny Dodds, Bill Johnson am Banjo, Lil Hardin am Klavier und Baby Dodds an den Perkussionsinstrumenten macht nur Andeutungen an die notierte Melodie. Durch den Vergleich der Transkription der Aufnahme mit der Handschrift kann die Verbindung zwischen den beiden analysiert werden. Dabei wird klar, dass die Musiker*innen die Technik des modularen Kontrapunktes angewendet haben. Mithilfe des Konzepts der Archetypen von C.G. Jung kann die Handschrift adäquat klassifiziert werden. Ungeachtet der substantiellen Unterschiede zwischen Manuskripts und der Aufnahme ist ein gemeinsamer Nenner zu finden, ein Archetyp, welcher die Grundlage für alle Erscheinungsformen des Dipper Mouth Blues ist. / Comparing the copyright deposit of the Dipper Mouth Blues and the famous recording of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, it becomes apparent that the music score is not intended to be used as a lead sheet in the sense of a playing score. The performance with the bandleader and cornet player King Oliver, the cornet player Louis Armstrong, the trombone player Honoré Dutrey, the clarinet player Johnny Dodds, Bill Johnson on banjo, Lil Hardin on piano and Baby Dodds on percussion instruments seems to only contain hints of the same tune in written form. The connection can be analysed by comparing the transcription of the recording with the score. It is found that the musicians apply a technique of modular counterpoint. The concept of archetypes as described by C.G. Jung is used in order to describe and find an appropriate classification for the notation of the copyright deposit. Despite the substantial differences between the score and the recording there is a common denominator, an archetype, that is the source of all manifestations of Dipper Mouth Blues.

This paper explores fugitive slave advertisements from the pages of the New Orleans Argus in 1828. As the main repository for runaway slave advertisements in New Orleans at the time, the Argus played a critical role in policing and surveillance of the city’s enslaved population just as New Orleans was becoming the largest slave market in the South. Using the Argus as well as historians’ accounts of the city, this thesis argues that as the market in enslaved people grew, slave owners depended upon local jailers in tandem with papers like the Argus, to police the enslaved population. The large volume of these advertisements, however, also testifies to enslaved people’s frequent rejection of bondage. This thesis is designed primarily as an index of the existing ads for 1828 with the aim of assisting further research into these sources.

[pt] A presente tese discute estratégias de visibilidade social e midiática a partir de práticas de comunicação empreendidas por jovens no Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brasil, e em Nova Orleans (LA), Estados Unidos. Para tanto, são apresentados relatos de estudo de campo realizado nestas cidades, apoiado no método etnográfico – elegendo como ferramental a pesquisa participante e a análise qualitativa em perspectiva feminista –, além do amparo teórico alicerçado em tópicos da Comunicação, da Sociologia e da Antropologia, principalmente. Os sujeitos observados no Brasil (2014-2016) são idealizadores, promotores e participantes de festivais e batalhas de passinho, dança que surgiu nos anos 2000 nas favelas cariocas. Enquanto estilo que congrega cada vez mais meninos e meninas, com significativa repercussão midiática, o passinho revela aspectos comuns aos indivíduos favelados, situações cotidianas que passam por escolha de caminhos a seguir, conflitos de interesses pessoais e da família e a relação com o território que, em resposta a um estigma de lugar, tem sido ressignificada no orgulho da afirmação sou favelado. Na singularidade do corpo performático, o passinho posiciona o dançarino nas questões coletivas que o aproximam de outros em condições semelhantes. Já a investigação em campo em Nova Orleans (2015- 2016) permitiu a observação do ativismo juvenil em eventos de poesia (spoken word) organizados pelo New Orleans Youth Open Mic e em postagens do Blog Noirlinians, que explora moda, cultura e território, na esteira de movimentos sociais contemporâneos, como Black Lives Matter. Ambos mobilizam majoritariamente jovens pretos, conectados por referenciais e práticas de autorreconhecimento como via possível de produção de visibilidade em um contexto que o estigma está na cor da pele. Os grupos acompanhados no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos têm em comum a criatividade e a expressão corporal como fórum de discussão e meio de representação, além do uso de mídias sociais digitais e website para promoverem suas atividades, comunidades e a si próprios, ultrapassando, pela mobilização cultural e artística, a geografia de suas cidades. A partir do tripé juventudes, representações e visibilidade, que sustenta esta análise, verificou-se nos comportamentos e práticas juvenis a manifestação de indivíduos que percebem e assumem a relação social como uma experiência que passa pela via da sensibilidade, transcendendo interações pessoais e apoiando-se, cada vez mais, no campo das possibilidades advindas da vida digital, a fim de buscar reconhecimento em um contexto de padrões de valoração sociocultural institucionalizados que fazem com que algumas pessoas se tornem invisíveis, simplesmente pelo fato de não responderem a modelos ideais de ser, ter, pertencer, comportar-se, como os participantes favelados e pretos deste estudo. Nesta composição, corpo e novas tecnologias surgem, então, como elementos estratégicos na construção e proposição de (auto)representações entre as juventudes observadas, de forma que se evidenciam, pelo menos, dois aspectos: 1) O corpo juvenil destaca-se como a própria mídia, plataforma central, explorada como território político, construído poética e culturalmente; 2) Práticas comunicacionais possibilitadas por novas tecnologias potencializam distintas experiências de subjetivação. Tais experiências permitem a apreciação do saber proveniente da sensorialidade: as maneiras como jovens habitam diferentes territórios – físicos e virtuais - e traçam suas trajetórias – muitas vezes agindo individualmente, porém, jogando luz sobre competências coletivas. / [en] This thesis discusses strategies of social and media visibility based on communication practices launched by young people in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil, and in New Orleans (LA), United States. In order to do so, we present the reports of a fieldwork carried out in these cities, supported by the ethnographic method - participant research and qualitative analysis in a feminist perspective - as well as the theoretical support based on topics of Communication, Sociology and Anthropology, mainly. The young people observed in Brazil (2014-2016) are idealizers, promoters and participants of festivals and battles of passinho, a dance originated in the years 2000 in the Rio s shantytowns. As a style that congregates more and more boys and girls, with significant media repercussions, passinho reveals common aspects of individuals from favelas, everyday situations that pass through the choice that they make to follow in their lives, conflicts of personal and family interests and the relationship with the territory that in response to a stigma of place, it has been re-signified in the pride of the statement I am favelado. In the singularity of the performative body, passinho places the dancer in the collective questions that brings him closer to others in similar conditions. The fieldwork in New Orleans (2015-2016) allowed the observation of youth activism in spoken word events organized by the New Orleans Youth Open Mic and in the posts of Blog Noirlinians which explores fashion, culture and territory in the wake of contemporary social movements, such as Black Lives Matter. Both mobilize mostly black youth, connected by referential and practices of selfrecognition as a possible way of producing visibility in a context where the stigma is in the skin color. The groups observed in Brazil and in the United States have in common the creativity and the corporal expression as a forum of discussion and means of representation, besides the use of digital social media and website to promote their activities, communities and themselves, surpassing, for cultural and artistic mobilization, the geography of their cities. From the base of youths, representations and visibility, which supports this analysis, it was verified in the youth s behaviors and practices the manifestation of individuals who perceive and assume the social relation as an experience that passes through the path of sensitivity. Transcending personal interactions, those young people have seeked out recognition in a context of institutionalized sociocultural valuation patterns that make some people invisible simply because they do not respond to ideal models of to be, to have, to belong, to behave like the favelados and black people participants of this study. In this composition, body and new technologies appear as strategic elements in the construction and proposition of (self) representations among the youths observed, so that at least two aspects are evident: 1) The youth body emphasizes as the media itself, a central platform, exploited as a political territory, constructed poetically and culturally; 2) Communication practices made possible by new technologies enhance different experiences of subjectivation. Such experiences allow the appreciation of the knowledge that comes from sensoriality: the ways young people inhabit different territories - physical and virtual - and trace their trajectories - often acting individually, however, shed light on collective competences.

My objective with this thesis is to understand how racist stereotypes and myths compounded the sale of fair-skinned black women during and after the slave trade in New Orleans, Louisiana. This commodification of black women's bodies continued well into the twentieth century, notably in New Orleans' vice district of Storyville. Called "quadroons" (a person with ¼ African ancestry) and "octoroons" (1/8 African ancestry), these women were known for their "sexual prowess" and drew in a large number of patrons. The existence of "white passing" black women complicated ideas about race and racial purity in the South. Race as a myth and social construct, or as Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham explains in her essay, African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race, a "metalanguage" exposes race not as a genetic fact, but rather a physical appearance through which power relations and status were to be conferred. My methodology uses race and gender theory to analyze primary and secondary sources to understand and contextualize how population demographics, myths, and liberal 18th century colonial laws contributed to the sale of black women's bodies. The works of Emily Clark, Walter Johnson, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and other historians who utilize Atlantic history have been paramount in my research. Emily Clark has transformed the "white-black" women from a tragic, sexualized trope into a fully actualized human being, while Hall has tackled the racist underpinnings inherent in the neglect of black women's history. The writings of bell hooks, particularly her essay Eating the Other, establishes the modern day commodification of black women vis-à -vis their representation in media, as well as through the fetishism of their bodies by a white patriarchal system. During slavery plantation owners could do virtually anything they wanted with their property, including engaging in sexual intercourse. By depicting black women as hypersexual jezebels, they could justify their rape, while establishing their dominance and place in the white male hegemony of that time period. For the right price a white male of a lesser class could achieve the same thing at a brothel down in Storyville at the turn of the twentieth century, for as Emily Clark argues in her book, The Strange History of the American Quadroon, these brothels were a great equalizer, allowing all white men to experience "…sexual mastery enjoyed only by elite planters before the Civil War." By democratizing white supremacy, the quadroon and others like her forged solidarity that bridge across all classes, while upholding whiteness and oppressing people of color at the same time.

In this paper, I examine E.J. Bellocq's "Storyville Portraits" within art historical and feminist historiographies. One of the most infamously alluring parts of New Orleans at the turn of the century, the Storyville red light district is hardly part of contemporary American consciousness today. Part of my work involves an evaluation of what a lack of archival resources does to perceptions of Storyville and more broadly, the stereotypical late Victorian “fallen women” that has been read into history - both by historians and popular culture. However, my focal point is indeed the portraits and how they might be re-read and fruitfully explored when considering a variety of pertinent factors that influenced representations of sex work in late 19th century New Orleans.

Using the literary device of a fictional interview between the artist and a sympathetic intellectual, I explore concepts relating to subjectivity, pedagogy, memory, “Southernness,” whiteness, the deceptive nature of images, social justice, and 20th century art as they relate to a contemporary artistic practice.

This study examines potential transportation improvements in the Elysian Fields Avenue Corridor, and the benefit that these improvements may produce. Data for the study area are compiled and analyzed. Conceptual plans for the implementation of different transit technology alternatives were developed and assessed in terms of user benefits, cost, potential land use impacts, potential economic impacts, and feasibility. Case studies and relevant literature are reviewed. The intent of this thesis is to provide an overview of the study area prior and subsequent to Hurricane Katrina, develop plans for the implementation of transit alternatives in the Elysian Fields Avenue Corridor, and assess potential costs and benefits of the different alternatives developed.

This thesis deals with the life and career and intimate life of Francis Carroll Grevemberg, an antiaircraft World War II officer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Grevemberg joined the Louisiana National Guard in 1932 and began his military career in the midst of the Great Depression. In the reorganization of the U.S. Army before World War II, the War Department transformed Grevemberg's cavalry regiment into a coastal artillery battalion with antiaircraft capability. During World War II, Grevemberg saw continuous action in the North Africa, Italy and Southern France. He regularly wrote letters from battlefields to his wife Dorothy. These letters provide a important window into a young officer's feelings, thoughts and affection in the unfolding of World War II. They are documents of a soldier's emotional release during times of crises. Lt. Col. Grevemberg is a rare, World War II antiaircraft artillery officer who took part and survived five amphibious landings in the Mediterranean.

Civil rights commemorative boulevards are an increasingly important method of framing African American community revitalization and persistent historical inequities. Often underlying planning efforts to revitalize segregated African American neighborhoods, these boulevards are one important change mechanism for realizing equitable development and challenging structural racism. This thesis demonstrates the central importance of these commemorative boulevards in framing redevelopment and maintaining community resolve during the long struggle for revitalization

This study investigates the first Woman's Department at a World's Fair in the Deep South. It documents conflicts and reconciliations and the reassessments that post-bellum women made during the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, the region's foremost but atypical city. It traces local women's resistance to the appointment of northern abolitionist and suffragist, Julia Ward Howe, for this “New South” event of 1884-1885. It also notes their increasing receptivity to national causes that Susan B. Anthony, Frances E. Willard, and others brought to the South, sometimes for the first time. This dissertation assesses the historical forces that goaded New Orleans women, from the comfort of their familiar city, to consider radical notions that would later strengthen them in civic roles. It asserts that, although these women were skilled and capable, they had previously lacked cohesive force and public strategies. It concludes that as local women competed and interacted with women from across the country, including those from pioneering western territories, they began to embrace progressive ideas and actions that, without the Woman's Department at the Exposition, might have taken years to drift southward. This is a chronological tale of the journey late-nineteenth-century women made together in New Orleans. It attempts to capture their look, sound, and language from their own writings and from journalists' interpretations of their ideals, values, and emotions. In the potent forum for exchange that the Woman's Department provided, participants and visitors questioned and revised false notions and stereotypes. They influenced each other and formed alliances. Although individuals spoke mainly for themselves, common themes emerged regarding education, jobs, benevolence, and even suffrage. Most women were aware that they were in a defining moment, and this study chronicles how New Orleans women seized the opportunity and created a legacy for themselves and their city. As the Exposition sought to (re)assert agrarian and industrial prowess after turbulent times, a shift occurred in the trajectory of women's public and political lives in New Orleans and, perhaps, the South more broadly. By 1885, southerners were ready to insinuate their voices into the national debate on women's issues.