Collapse because youre crossing your hands, but it has a definite beat that has been added in transform come but the one that was signed most because that was always for specific moment, closing things. The one that i think was so close to five signed most was probably aint nobody going to turn me around. And sometimes it would be signed at inappropriate times and they have been turned back on the bridge the 2nd time and go back before the 3rd one where they do cross and sing aint nobody again that let aint nobody can turn me around. Before i go much further i will. Out that i have a great honor to be in the presence of somebody who sang those songs, reverend ed king is here, one of the heroes of the Mississippi Freedom Movement is saying no signs and heard them firsthand while the rest of us are wondering what it was all about and if he has any comments, i would love to get those. Would you indulge me this for a moment . [applause] thank you. I was going to have a question, but, but i will respond to this because my mind started. You put me back on selma bridge and said we sing aint nobody can let me turn me around as we were turned around by the greatest power in the world, the, the president of the United States. But few of us knew it. Taylor branch of this great series shows the moment. This was the 2nd cross. The 1st is the famous picture of john lewis and others being beaten. Two daystwo days later he marched again with several hundred people from all over america. Before we left the church it was said, if you cannot die, that is all right. If you cannot go to prison, stay here, make, make sandwiches call roll bandages. There will be a place where everyone, and most people decided to put my life on the line. We crossed the bridge and sang this song. We saw the troops lined up blocking the road. Never has there been such witness, and then were told lets go back to the church and sing some more. I knew deep into politics that we had been betrayed. What had happened was the president of the United States had told doctor king, you cannot defy a federal court order. And he cooperated. Wonderfully captures this moment and says walking back from the bridge a Young Catholic priest said, thank you, lord, thank you, lord. Very involved with doctor king for the end in memphis and he does not realize that one week after i said i doublecrossed him again he called and asked me to go to ohio across the river to speak in the middle of Middle America about Voting Rights for blacks. Of course i went. But you really caught me. Sorry tome. Sorry to go off. My question is about legends that attach to the spirituals or any songs and two events and so on, and i am not sure that it matters if we can track it. It does when you cannot, but that does not negate the strangest story that i have heard from particularly from hollis watkins, this great singer in mississippi, the psalm steal away, steal away to jesus. And he insists the reference to jesus. Do you know which one he means . Before the mayflower in 1619, the 1st slave ship to arrive in america by the dutch was named the good ship jesus. And hollis thinks that the remnants of this survived and then, of course, jesus is freedom comes into it, but theroot goes all the way back to somebody remembering africa and that slave ship jesus. It does not matter whether it is true or not. It is beautiful. Thank you. It seems like we got a presentation within the presentation. Are there any other questions . Well, i would like to thank you all for attending the presentation, and that was an excellent presentation on discussing the beauties found within black sacred gospel music and its relevance. Thank you very much. I no that you all will want to speak with professor darden at the book signing from 2 00 oclock to 245. Thank you for attending, and i hope you you enjoy the rest of the book festival. [applause] and brian boyles is next from the 12th annual louisiana book festival recalling new orleans bush to prepare the city for the 2013 super bowl and the succeeding power outage in the midst of the game. Today for afternoon presentation we will have brian boyles reading from his work new orleans boom and blackout. Mr. Boyles is the Vice President for content at the louisiana government for the humanities his work has been featured in oxford american, vice, the classical offbeat magazine, the brooklyn rail, slam, and louisiana cultural vistas, author of new orleans boom and blackout 100 days in americas coolest hotspot and coauthor of new orleans , the underground guide. Without further do. Thank you so much for coming out on this lovely day in baton rouge and thank you to the book festival, one of the great events we havent louisiana and, i think, in the country. I am going to talk a little bit today and overview of the book which was published in january and was named the new orleans selection for 2015 in the 10th anniversary year following the levee failures. I am almost at the end of the book tour. Thanks and most part for this one book one new orleans nation and that had a lot of time to think about the conception of the book and the themes that i think continue to new orleans census publications, things that i would have guessed would have continued and other things that were a little more unplanned. Anyone from new orleans knows that you are not from new orleans if you cannot name your high school or i guess your favorite flavors. I am not from new orleans but have lived there on and off from 1995. Growing up in pittsburgh was a time before nfl games were on six different stations and we were still well known for the pittsburgh steelers. Whenever there was a National Game at the beginning or end of a commercial break they were show clips of molten steel coming off of shoots and men hitting i am with hammers. I knew no one the live that life by the time i came along in the 80s and 90s there was this disconnect always between what you saw on television and when you actually knew about the place where you were from. Fast forwarding when i moved to new orleans and felt a different way about a city and the city i did not think anyone could possibly understand i watch this on television and go through a differenta different process than the people who lost their homes. I moved back in 2,006 and i think at that point sort of felt that zeitgeist the people still do not understand the city, what was being said about the city was manipulated, misunderstood, exaggerated. Many of them had not lived there at the time of the catastrophe or even as i did in the 1990s in a much different town that there were things that were not being captured, things that were not fully fleshed out and people talk about what new orleans was. The very positive people seemed to generalize and some more things that we heard a politicians mother places in the country talk. For me new orleans will ever be a protean place to resist the generalizations that it attracts. You can be sure that someone else can puncture a hole ina hole in that and write a book or two in response. I had this feeling some of his defensiveness that i think a lot of people have. I started workingi started working at the Louisiana Humanities Center where we began to do programming prior to the storms of the people had a better grasp, especially as they went to the polls of what they were getting into when they decided what was going to come next. Now, really sense, i think, 2010 theyre has been a narrative of the new new orleans, a nebulous, positive glow about a city that is somehow much better than it was, that has reformed its infrastructure, attractive toinfrastructure, attractive to investment and young people and technology and certainly to tourists command many parts are true, but when the 2013 super bowl came into focus and i could see it, there was a feeling thata feeling that this knew new orleans would have a crowning achievement moment that the rest of the nation would arrive and see just how strong we were. Unfortunately, there were many, many parts of the city they continue to be quite weak, places that have been ignored i wanted to look both at how the narrative of the new new orleans was crafted but also where there were definite discrepancies between the narrative moving back out to see that machinery as imageworks. I began with new orleans taxicab drivers who were forced into a lot of reforms leading up to the super bowl. That being the 1st ambassadors that a tourist with me. The tour is a master plan developed in 2010 for the city, and they came into the cave into the crosshairs of that master plan. The idea was that there would be a supply chain wearing a tourist lands at the airport and it is a new airport. It is a new and they reach the french quarter. The streets are all fixed. They can go to a music venue that is easily found come all of these things that experience curated and smoothed and made easy so that revenue could be generated. Reforms to infrastructure and also businesses in order to make that experience appealing to tourists. I am not someone who thinks it is a bad thing, but what you saw was that workingclass people were getting caught in the grinds of their forms. I continue to go and find working people who work very much in the orbit of the super bowl, but street workers, strip of employees, tarot card readers come people worked in marketing. What was going on in the city trumping and return command those people sometimes got avoided in that conversation. I really focused on someone that was done through musicians. A brass band musician for the most part comes from disadvantaged neighborhoods, or hard hit by the storm and the cost of living. Yet they also will play at the most gala wedding, travel the world representing new orleans. He take that instrument away and this is a young black male in a city that has continued to fail to protect the check black males. I felt it was important to talk to them to see what they thought about the idea, how they would make money during the super bowl and what they thought the city could do to make life easier for them. I talked to tarot card workers on Jackson Square had been kind of right in the target when they decided to clean up the area leading up to the super bowl. No longer allowed to have signage, no longer allowed to have the Free Enterprise that is usually associated. Announcing that they defeated the city when it came to doing that cleanup. I really wanted to talk to folks who knew more about what was going on the ground veryvery easy to know what is going on up in the sky. You here the boasts of what the super bowl represented it was ironic because it was the same years hurricane sandy. You had in one hand new orleans trumpeting his recovery and crediting sports and spectacles and you had new jersey the following year which was going to use the same model to recover from its own tragedy. There were things going on in the city that did not have to do with new orleans but that were important in that hundred days. Any hundred days in new orleans would generate a multitude of stories, but this particular time was pressurized, and it had to do with the reforms in the drives that the mayor had and it was now coming to fruition. He had been in august since 2010 around the time of the super bowl happening we saw some of that start to hit a point of difficulty. The federal consent decrees attached to the New Orleans Police Department and the new Orleans Parish prison were both supposed to go into effect around this time. The problem was that the cost for implementing was not with the city thought they would be in specifically the one for the jail was portrayed as a surprise to the city. You have the mayor of a major American City you had just three months before had a press conference in which she had declared handinhand with the attorney general that he would clean up the defense department. You can get the heck out if you did not like it. Several months later accusing the federal government of being schizophrenic and his own sheriff of having a gun, that kind of conflict i guess you could say i lucked into having it happen and kind of exploding during that 100 days, but it was indicative of the tension i was looking at in analyzing this knew new orleans. On the one hand you have the we will to conform. A new national interest, but these deepseated problems in the New Orleans Police Department and new Orleans Parish prison deepseated, highly now functional institutions for quite a long time and continue to be that way today, not something you could gloss over. You could not just say the nfl is here is put to the side the steel we have. You hadyou had to deal with it, and they saw our struggle going on during that time. And the other big thing was the way rain was indicted. He had not been talked a lot about and that last year except that we knew command i would say we look in the last couple of months when we had the anniversary of katrina, hardly ever mentioned. Now, of course, he is in jail sick you could not physically see him, but he was not part of the dialogue when he came to the south. He was indicted just a few weeks before the super bowl. Again, this was a ghost of the past coming forward and reminding people that the recovery was not just about a new mayor coming into town much of it was a horrible struggle. People on the ground had to be stronger than they will ever be able to be credited for to go through corruption, inaction, the things that slow that down. It is not easy to tell that story and a halftime show, not easy to tell the story in a book, but those things kept popping up as they unfolded. As the game itself finally came into focus if i wanted to look at historical precedents is, some of the things that had gone on, a big part of my work, it is one thing to say that we have a new industry coming in our new book coming in whether its by tech or real estate or education, but there have been other points in the history of new orleans not even that far back. As we talk about this i wanted to go back and look at what happened in the 1980s. What ideas were kicked around at that time about the future. In 1982 on new years day a real estate report declares that the new new orleans is at hand and that we will look back this year as the year we finally turned the corner and jumped into the 21st century. The 20th century i think they might have said. What is new orleans always feel that lag, like it needs to declare itself . Things that held it back and the things to contribute to its feeling of being inferior somehow. I dedicated that chapter to the 1984 worlds fair, another time when new orleans was supposed to be coming in to a glut of money would new infrastructure and showing to the world that it can do it, perform, and, and it was a horrific failure, bankrupt failure they left behind a Convention Center and the season private investment benefited many of the families that you continue to see in power in new orleans today. Again, i. Again, i have somewhat of a compulsion of drawing these lines, but it is how you understand the organism of the city. You cannot just look at it and hundred day period. Everything is worked out or not and it is complicated. I got closer and closer to the game and was involved in the circus of it,it, parades, parties, different pronunciations pronouncements that happened. The monday of the super bowl new orleans debuted his new streetcar line. If anything is felt to me like the anniversary of the 1st day of the new new orleans this is probably it. All of the National Media in town, they were all theyre and adventures of the super bowl committee, representatives of federal, state, and local government and the mayor went out of his way to say not just that new orleans had recovered but that new orleans was a model for the rest of the country should be which is a difference. I dont think that has been set a lot by other mayors and other people. Suddenly the term new new orleans has been pronounced, but the idea that we are a beacon, there are a lot of things the mayor says that makes sense and a lot of work he has done that has been affected. People here things like that and that hyperbole the marching band traces its path command we are told that this project has been on time, on budget