tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31598621.post4063358628412855535..comments2024-03-25T22:21:09.417-04:00Comments on A Brooklynite on the Ice: The Whitest Second Line I've Ever SeenThey say it's a cold worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09059089212388940864noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31598621.post-82905205329142537252010-05-05T11:21:44.842-04:002010-05-05T11:21:44.842-04:00My take on it is that the 2nd line is the group th...My take on it is that the 2nd line is the group that forms either behind or along side of the SA@P members and band. Basically, it's the hangers-on and wanna bes, who're not really "official" participants.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31598621.post-64885639552302183242010-04-07T18:22:07.191-04:002010-04-07T18:22:07.191-04:00I gotta say it, but the second line goes both ways...I gotta say it, but the second line goes both ways. If a SA&P Club, they are the first line, accompanied by the band, followed by the second, though band considered second is also valid. For funerals, the body is the first with the band, followed by the second. This is told forty different ways of course, but the thees that jump in tend to compose the second. Historiography is a bitch; see also Jerah Johnson's "Jim Crow laws of the 1890s and the origins of New Orleans Jazz: correction of an error." Popular music 2000 vol. 19/2 (I'm not correcting or asserting I am right, there is just a gazillion repeats on takes...)cphnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31598621.post-51246378996675575702010-04-05T09:06:34.230-04:002010-04-05T09:06:34.230-04:00Good times dancing to a live NOLA-style brass band...Good times dancing to a live NOLA-style brass band marching across the Brooklyn Bridge. Here's my own short footage of what it was like.<br /><br />http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2010/04/nola-brass-band-leading-second-line-across-brooklyn-bridge-today-video.htmlRik Panganibanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08757004087745160715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31598621.post-43183544689038630692010-04-03T19:47:53.116-04:002010-04-03T19:47:53.116-04:00Lurve it!Lurve it!Shireenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410783493743372979noreply@blogger.com