Behind the Lines
The Black Mardi Gras Indians and the New Orleans Second Line
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11679149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael P Smith (0009-0000-1447-2920, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-43 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Black Music Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0276-3605 • E-ISSN: 1946-1615 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/779458 |
| OpenAlex | W2331863461 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 7 |
The 1992 Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D.C., marked Columbus quincentenary and was dedicated better understanding America's cultural heritage-particularly Maroon culture in Americas. In festival program, Kenneth Bilby and Diana Baird N'Diaye (1992, 54) describe Maroons as enslaved Africans who had managed escape plantations and form new societies in wilderess. Maroons, they continue, were among first Americans resist colonial domination, striving for independence, forging new cultures and identities, and developing solidarity out of diversity ... The music, dance, verbal arts, and spiritual traditions of contemporary Maroon peoples . . . are predominantly African in origin. Today, the cultures of Maroons . . . are best understood as creative syntheses that have combined and recombined originally diverse African elements, as well as non-African elements, in unique ways (Bilby and Baird N'Diaye 1992, 57-58). I was surprised that festival program identified only two Maroon cultures in North America-the Seminole Scouts of Texas and Seminole Freedman of Oklahoma-both explained as originating in northern bushlands of Spanish Florida. Charles Emily Wilson, a member of Seminole Scouts, a group now largely residing in Bracketville, Texas, has reported that in 1870 her ancestors were asked come Oklahoma and Texas as scouts for U.S. Army to fight Native Americans so that white people could settle in region. Wilson explains that for more than two hundred years scouts have kept their double African and Indian heritage alive (Wilson 1992, 80). There is little difference between runaways that settled with Seminoles in Florida, those that settled with other Native Americans of
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| Citations per year | 0.28 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2024 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |