CTC Stepper (by minorjive)
1st batch of photos from last Sunday’s ORIGINAL C.T.C. STEPPERS SA&P CLUB 2013 PARADE, second line in New Orleans
Source: Flickr / bgreenberg
“A sampling of the many neighborhood and class-based accents in New Orleans circa 1983 from the documentary YEAH YOU RITE! by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker.”
Touches on the working-class New Orleans ‘Yat’ dialect, which at the time of this documentary I was trying my hardest to lose by modeling my speech on national TV shows. I lost it, and it only comes back now when I’m really mad.
After the flood - From New Orleans (via Libby Telford)
Floodwall Exhibit in New York, Jan 2007, overlooking the Ground zero site.
The drawers are from and symbolize what the people of New Orleans lost after Hurricane Katrina.
