What was Derrida describing?

[Ghetta Life]

>From: Keith McMullen <keithsz at sbcglobal.net>
>
> >>>And btw, I agree with the posters who suggested that every death is a 
>tragedy<<<
>
>Perhaps this conceptualization of death is the tragedy.


http://www.digitalcity.com/neworleans/bars/event.adp?evid=1905925

Big Easy (New Music CD)
Artist: Kermit Ruffins
Track 3: When I Die (You Better Second Line)


http://fsweb.wm.edu/amst370/2001/sp3/jazzfuneralsright.htm

Jelly Roll Morton's playing in and participation in jazz funerals marks not 
only their significance in New Orleans as a popular form of musical 
expression and culture, but also how these funerals played an integral part 
in the creation and development of jazz music.  Jazz funerals follow a 
tradition of both white and black culture in New Orleans, Louisiana that 
focuses on the afterlife and accordingly celebrates the passing of the 
deceased.   Through the course of a jazz funeral, the casket is first taken 
from a church or funeral parlor and then ushered to the gravesite.  During 
this a band “leads the procession slowly”  through the neighborhood on the 
way to the gravesite.  Here the mood expressed by the band is somber, it 
performs hymns “commonly sung in black Protestant churches”.  The focus of 
the attention for everyone involved is on the family and mourners of the 
deceased.  At the exit of the cemetery, after a little distance is 
established, the band begins to play “the ‘second line’ beat”  and also take 
part in forms of improvised jazz as the mourners dance with umbrellas back 
to lodges or homes.  This started by the drummers acts a backbeat for the 
rest of the band, and also establishes a beat for the second line.  This 
second line is a group of "family, friends and other celebrants"  who carry 
umbrellas and begin to celebrate the life of the deceased by dancing and 
partying through the streets with the band.

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