(NEW ORLEANS) — This city faced one of its greatest tragedies 20 years ago as Hurricane Katrina roared through. With the loss of many lives and the destruction of homes, businesses, and schools everyone loved turned around. The sounds of jazz made a turn around too, but for a reason less expected.
Julian Lombard, New Orleans born and raised, explains the difference between the old New Orleans the new New Orleans.
In the old New Orleans, the sounds of jazz from the second-line brass bands once echoed through Bourbon Street and the French Quarter nightly often until dawn.
Post-Katrina brought in gentrification and with gentrification came the policing of cultural traditions that had been passed down for decades. And the newcomers who moved to be part of New Orleans’ vibrant culture are now the ones hindering it.
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