Topic: New Orleans
‘DR. DADDY-O’ DJ
Live broadcasts, interviews and radio segments, which originally aired between 1949 and 1958, by Vernon “Dr. Daddy-O” Winslow for “Jivin’ with Jax” on WWEZ-AM New Orleans are now available online via the Tulane University Digital Library. These recordings represent the emergence of Black radio in New Orleans, while featuring Winslow’s work as the first African American radio disc jockey on New Orleans airwaves. They are included in the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, a division of Tulane University Special Collections.https://tulane.it/dr-daddy-o
Grecian Urn Blues
The author finds that story poets, especially country songwriters, best Romantic poets any day.
Impression: Judy Cooper
Many colors flash through the mind when thinking of New Orleans culture.
Living and Learning
When Hurricane Ida arrived 16 years to the day after Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, a narrative quickly emerged that it would be the Katrina of the 2020s. Fortunately, the improvements made to New Orleans’ flood protection system more than a decade and a half ago changed this storyline.
Wish You Were Here
Postcards depicting travel scenes and inscribed with cryptic messages are a dwindling form of communication.
Great Cities Need Great Universities
Urban universities are defined by the cities they call home and cities with great universities are set apart by their vitality, innovation, originality and diversity.
Gridiron Handles
Fullback Felts, tackle Upton, halfback Zimmerman, guard Scafide and tight end Haynes played in the 1932 Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day in Pasadena, California.
HOORAY FOR ROOTS OF MUSIC
Academic Tutoring—Roots of Music, a Tulane student club, organized 100 self-care goody bags for New Orleans kids who are part of Roots of Music. Roots of Music is a nonprofit program that provides music history and theory, instrumental instruction, and ensemble performance preparation for students ages 9–14 from low-income households.https://tulane.it/roots-of-music
