Sweet spots : in-between spaces in New Orleans / edited by Teresa A. Toulouse and Barbara C. Ewell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Toulouse, Teresa, editor.

Ewell, Barbara C., editor.

Heard, Malcolm, dedicatee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buildings--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Buildings.

Architecture--Human factors.

Space (Architecture).

Louisiana--New Orleans.

New Orleans (La.)--Civilization.

New Orleans (La.).

Space (Architecture)--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Architecture--Human factors--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Architecture.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2018.

Summary:

Contributions by Carrie Bernhard, Scott Bernhard, Marilyn R. Brown, Richard Campanella, John P. Clark, Joel Dinerstein, Pableaux Johnson, John P. Klingman, Angel Adams Parham, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Ruth Salvaggio, Christopher Schaberg, Teresa A. Toulouse, and Beth Willinger Much has been written about New Orleans's distinctive architecture and urban fabric, as well as the city's art, literature, and music. There is, however, little discussion connecting these features. Sweet Spots --a title drawn from jazz musicians' name for the space "in-between" performers and dancers where music best resonates--provides multiple connections between the city's spaces, its complex culture, and its future. Drawing on the late Tulane architect Malcolm Heard's ideas about "interstitial" spaces, this collection examines how a variety of literal and represented "in-between" spaces in New Orleans have addressed race, class, gender, community, and environment. As scholars of architecture, art, African American studies, English, history, jazz, philosophy, and sociology, the authors incorporate materials from architectural history and practice, literary texts, paintings, drawings, music, dance, and even statistical analyses. Interstitial space refers not only to functional elements inside and outside of many New Orleans houses--high ceilings, hidden staircases, galleries, and courtyards--but also to compelling spatial relations between the city's houses, streets, and neighborhoods. Rich with visual materials, Sweet Spots reveals the ways that diverse New Orleans spaces take on meanings and accrete stories that promote certain consequences both for those who live in them and for those who read such stories. The volume evokes, preserves, criticizes, and amends understanding of a powerful and often-missed feature of New Orleans's elusive reality.

Contents:

Interspace 1 City Palimpsest 3

Chapter 1 Interstitial Urban Space: Inhabiting the Pleats and Notches in the Urban Fabric of New Orleans / Scott Bernhard Bernhard, Scott 5

Chapter 2 The Broken Plantation and the Sweet Space of Gardens / Ruth Salvaggio Salvaggio, Ruth 25

Interspace 2 Interstitial Systems 41

Chapter 3 Connection, Separation, and Mediation: Interstitial Systems in Traditional New Orleans Architecture / Carrie Bernhard Bernhard, Carrie 43

Chapter 4 Harmony Street: An Interstitial House / John P. Kingman Kingman, John P. 69

Interspace 3 Representing the In-Between 85

Chapter 4 Degas's New Orleanian Spaces / Marilyn R.Brown R.Brown, Marilyn

Chapter 6 John Galsworthy's "That Old-Time Place": Nostalgia, Repetition, and Interstitial Space in the St. Louis "Exchange" Hotel / Teresa A. Toulouse Toulouse, Teresa A. 109

Interspace 4 Constituting and Contesting the Interstitial 127

Chapter 7 "Seeing the Elephant" in New Orleans's Interstitial Spaces: A Look behind Modern-Day Bourbon Street to the Origins of Civic Repute / Richard Campanella Campanella, Richard 129

Chapter 8 Where Women Live: Creating and Regulating the Spaces of Womens Lives,1880-1950 / Beth Willinger Willinger, Beth 151

Chapter 9 Congo Square as a Lieu de Souvenir in New Orleans: Race, Place, and the Complexity of Blackness / Angel Adanms Parham Parham, Angel Adanms 173

Interspace 5 In-Betwenness in Motion 193

Chapter 10 Into the Between: Interstitial Soundscapes in Early New Orleans / Bruce Boyd Raeburn Raeburn, Bruce Boyd 195

Chapter 11 The Cultural Democracy of the Second Line: A View from beyond the Ropes / Joel Dinerstein Dinerstein, Joel, Pableaux Johnson Johnson, Pableaux 209

Interspace 6 "Authenticity," Simulacra, and Apocalypse 233

Chapter 12 Airportness in New Orleans / Christopher Schaberg Schaberg, Christopher 235

Chapter 13 Carnival at the Edge of the Abyss: New Orleans and the Apocalyptic Imagination / John P. Clark Clark, John P. 249

Interspace 7 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Sweet spots.

ISBN:

9781496817020

1496817028

9781496818577

1496818571

OCLC:

1010579941