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Second Line: Footwork in New Orleans

Treme, New Orleans, LA, USA
30 minutes

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New Orleans is the most magnetic of places. Here it feels like the air is thicker, the light has currents in it and the ground is …bouncy. And bubbling up from those streets is the second line, a rolling block party, a neighbourhood parade, a high-voltage current coursing through the city’s veins every Sunday with music, community, freedom and culture. For many Black New Orleanians it’s the day when you own the streets, so you better bring that FOOTWORK

Credits

Lina Prestwood of Scenery Studios and Lucia Scazzocchio of Social Broadcasts

APA style reference

Barran, P. (2024). Second Line: Footwork in New Orleans. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/second-line-footwork-in-new-orleans/

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plodge

The Scottish and English word plodging has been wading through the lexical muck and mire since the late 1700s, and it refers to icky, slow, molasses-type walking. Plodge is probably a variation of plod. This word isn’t totally out of use, as a 1995 use from British magazine The Countryman illustrates: “Northbound Pennine Wayfarers, plodging through the interminable peat-bogs of the North Pennines.” Even if you have a spring in your step, it’s tough to skip merrily through the peat-bogs. Credits to Mark Peters.

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