Contributions by Carrie Bernhard, Scott Bernhard, Marilyn R. Brown,
Richard Campanella, John P. Clark, Joel Dinerstein, Pableaux
Johnson, John P. Klingman, Angel Adams Parham, Bruce Boyd Raeburn,
Ruth Salvaggio, Christopher Schaberg, Teresa A. Toulouse, and Beth
Willinger Much has been written about New Orleans's distinctive
architecture and urban fabric, as well as the city's art,
literature, and music. There is, however, little discussion
connecting these features. Sweet Spots--a title drawn from jazz
musicians' name for the space ""in-between"" performers and dancers
where music best resonates--provides multiple connections between
the city's spaces, its complex culture, and its future. Drawing on
the late Tulane architect Malcolm Heard's ideas about
""interstitial"" spaces, this collection examines how a variety of
literal and represented ""in-between"" spaces in New Orleans have
addressed race, class, gender, community, and environment. As
scholars of architecture, art, African American studies, English,
history, jazz, philosophy, and sociology, the authors incorporate
materials from architectural history and practice, literary texts,
paintings, drawings, music, dance, and even statistical analyses.
Interstitial space refers not only to functional elements inside
and outside of many New Orleans houses--high ceilings, hidden
staircases, galleries, and courtyards--but also to compelling
spatial relations between the city's houses, streets, and
neighborhoods. Rich with visual materials, Sweet Spots reveals the
ways that diverse New Orleans spaces take on meanings and accrete
stories that promote certain consequences both for those who live
in them and for those who read such stories. The volume evokes,
preserves, criticizes, and amends understanding of a powerful and
often-missed feature of New Orleans's elusive reality.
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