“ Roll With It is a welcome contribution to our understanding of New Orleans, cultural production, and the politics of place. The book will also appeal to the many others, across disciplines and both in and out of the academy, who are interested in the urban history, cultural traditions, and creative social movements that shape the past, present, and future of New Orleans.” - Rebecca Louise Carter, North American Dialogue The book will be of great interest and use for scholars and both introductory and advanced students, in anthropology, ethnomusicology, and related fields. " Roll With It is an important study, and the insight it provides on the local pathways of urban social survival and change, intersected with and mobilized through community-based musical expression, is both timely and valuable. What emerges from Sakakeeny’s book is a portrait of a city that, with all its challenges, still manages to support a vibrant musical culture.” - John Paul Meyers, Jazz Perspectives “ Roll With It adds a contemporary perspective to studies of New Orleans culture and music. Detailed profiles of individual musicians make for a captivating narrative, and the book is beautifully illustrated with artwork by New Orleans native Willie Birch.” - Scott Barretta, Clarion-Ledger “In addition to chronicling groups including the Rebirth Brass Brand, Sakakeeny provides a revealing look at the daily lives of musicians. Roll With It deserves a wide readership in the post-Katrina boom." - Jason Berry, New Orleans Magazine "Sakakeeny’s approach to the tensions between continuity in change in Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans, searches past academic theories, tapping many interviews and his own experiences with musicians. It also poses a bigger question: If our city has economically benefitted from selling culture as a post-Katrina resource, are musicians getting what they deserve? Roll With It explores the answer.” - Samuel Nelson, Where Y'at? " Roll With It is informative on many levels, detailing song structures, jazz history, neighborhood developments, and weaving information together through anecdote and research. It’s an engaging look street-level look at the bands that so often are used to represent and symbolize the city.” - Will Coviello, Gambit Sakakeeny observes the way the city celebrates its culture and especially its musicians, but the book also exposes the way many of them survive on the same earnings as low-rung service industry workers. The book offers a full picture of their lives and how the city’s cultural economy works on the factory end. “Sakakeeny offers detailed accounts of parades and the inner workings of the bands. “A notable work in that it’s the first critical project to chronicle New Orleans’ bombastic contemporary brass-band scene, the generation of musicians that grew up with century-old hymns in one ear and hip-hop in the other also, and importantly, it’s a keen, social-justice-minded examination of the turbulent mix of race, economics, culture and tradition in which brass band culture is located.” - Alison Fensterstock, Times-Picayune Beyond its entertainment value, music serves as the ‘site where competing social, political, and economic vectors intersect.’ In many ways, these vectors serve as a microcosm for the problems within the city at large.” “As Sakakeeny makes clear, the story of the city’s brass bands is far more complex than music alone. The musicians' personal stories are interwoven with historical information, academic reflection, and personal experience, combining to form a highly original work that creates a vivid portrait both of this musical format and the noble but beleaguered city of New Orleans.” - Florence Wetzel, All About Jazz “ Roll With It, which includes striking black-and-white illustrations by New Orleans artist Willie Birch, is at once celebratory and saddening: a book of personal stories and a highly researched academic work.” - Geraldine Wyckoff, Offbeat Labor and Working-Class History Association.
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