While in New Orleans for the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) annual conference, where I presented a paper about the New Orleans influence on the performance style of Mahalia Jackson, I visited the area of Mahalia’s “merry city” where she was raised.
The section of New Orleans, around Magazine and Walnut adjacent to Audubon Park, was cited in Lorraine Goreau’s Just Mahalia, Baby as the singer’s childhood community. Here are a couple of photographs of the area that I took on May 20, 2010.
Written by : Bob Marovich
Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.
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