The second-line parade celebrates the arrival of death, but it is a funeral without the dead. Mardi Gras has elements of the dances that the slaves celebrated. They are two faces of the same coin. Freedom is celebrated: that of a path to a perhaps better place and that of brief moments of independence. Les Blank captures the essence of these celebrations in New Orleans, representing music as a meeting between life and death.
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The second-line parade celebrates the arrival of death, but it is a funeral without the dead. Mardi Gras has elements of the dances that the slaves celebrated. They are two faces of the same coin. Freedom is celebrated: that of a path to a perhaps better place and that of brief moments of independence. Les Blank captures the essence of these celebrations in New Orleans, representing music as a meeting between life and death.