INDIGENOUS PRACTICES

Mardi Gras Indians

Brown, Robert N. “Don’t Bow Down on that Dirty Ground: A Photographic Essay of the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans.” Focus on Geography 57, no. 3 (2014): 103-113

Dewulf, Jeroen. From the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square: Kongo Dances and the Origins of the Mardi Gras Indians. Lafayette: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2017.

Roach, Joseph. “Mardi Gras Indians and Others: Genealogies of American Performance.” Theatre Journal 44, no. 4 (1 December 1992): 461-483.

Sakakeeny, Matt. Indian Rulers: Mardi Gras Indians and New Orleans Funk,” The Jazz Archivist. Vol. XVI (2002).
http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/music/upload/Sakakeeny_JazzArchivist.pdf

Sakakeeny, Matt. Mardi Gras Indians, In KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Ed. David Johnson. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2010--. Article published October 1, 2012.

Smith, Michael. Buffalo Bill and the Mardi Gras Indians. 64 Parishes. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, New Orleans,
https://64parishes.org/buffalo-bill-mardi-gras-indians

_____. The Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1993.

Teutsch, Matthew. “Performance Traditions and the “Mardi Gras Indians” in New Orleans,” in Black Perspectives. 2018.
https://www.aaihs.org/performance-traditions-and-the-mardi-gras-indians-in-new-orleans/

Turner, Richard Brent. “Mardi Gras Indians and Second Lines/Sequin Artists and Rara Bands: Street Festivals and Performances in New Orleans and Haiti.” Journal of Haitian Studies 9, no. 1 (1 April 2003): 124-156.

Brass Bands, Second Line Parading and Jazz Funerals:

Celestan, Karen. Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, Music Rising, Tulane University – The Musical Cultures of the Gulf South.
https://musicrising.tulane.edu/discover/themes/social-aids-pleasure-clubs/

Evans, Freddi Williams. “Congo Square and the Roots of Second Line Parading.” In Dancing in the Streets: Social and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans. New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2021.

Fagaly, William. He's The Prettiest: A Tribute to Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana's 50 Years of Mardi Gras Indian Suiting
http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Virtual_Books/Hes_Prettiest/hes_the_prettiest_tootie_montana.html

Gushee, Lawrence, "How the Creole Band Came to Be." Black Music Research Journal, 8, 1988.

Hall, Ardencie. New Orleans Jazz Funerals: Transition to the Ancestors. New York: New York University, 1998.

Sakakeeny, Matt. Brass Bands of New Orleans, In KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Ed. David Johnson. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2010. Article published May 19, 2011.

Sakakeeny, Matt. Jazz Funerals and Second Line Parades In KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Ed. David Johnson. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2010--. Article published September 9, 2015.

Salaam, Kalamu ya. New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians and Tootie Montana. New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1997.
http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Virtual_Books/Hes_Prettiest/hes_the_prettiest_tootie_montana.html

Smith, Michael. Mardi Gras Indians: Culture and Community Empowerment. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Folklike Festival Booklet,1988.
http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/creole_art_mardi_indians.html

American and African American Theater:

Roach, Joseph. “Deep Skin: Reconstructing Congo Square,” In African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Voss, Barbara Anna. The Mississippi River and the Development of American Folk Culture. 1980. Tulane University. PhD. Dissertation.

Wagner, Bryan. The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love. Baton Rouge, LSU Press, 2019.

___. The Wild Tchoupitoulas. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.