New Orleans Research Paper

On any given evening, music could be heard drifting through the streets as it seeped through windows and doorways of bars and lounges. The true nature of the tunes could be felt then, out in the dimly lit streets as it permeated the thick, humid southern air. The wild energy carried out into the night like a ghostly memory, bittersweet in its distant warmth. Music was the lifeblood of the city, the birthplace of jazz. New Orleans, 1953, nurturing the unique blend of rhythm and blues as it poured throughout the city. It held strong the tradition of New Orleans's nature, that of amalgamating and harmonizing.

All intertwined in a web of deep roots, they entangled like those of the bayou trees, the European and African, the blacks and the whites, the Catholics and the Voodoo practitioners. Certainly, the city's history was rich with music and arts and culture... all of which entwined in the tendrils of Voodoo. As widely celebrated as it was scorned, even the whites could not resist the call of the drums, the rich, powerful voices of the priests and priestesses and the incantations they sang. Though not all …show more content…
the sheer celebrations of culture that was a part of the city... as any, it had its flaws known only to the locals. Crimes had been committed as of late. Missing local peoples, all from different walks of life. Somehow directly unrelated with one another, no matter how deep the roots were traced by the police. It was only one person gone at first, a long time had passed before the second was reported. Shorter still was each spanse between the rest. It was becoming a matter of great urgency and stress for the missing whites. If there had been any blacks missing, they had either gone unreported or the police put those files in the bottom of the stack. Although no bodies were found, no one could count that as a blessing. Better dead than... well, the bayou was unforgiving, and its inhabitants were not always of the civilized