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« on: May 23, 2006, 01:56 PM »
came across that term; don't know what it means.

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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2006, 02:01 PM »
From Wikipedia. . .


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Second line is a tradition in brass band parades in New Orleans, Louisiana. The term is also used for an associated traditional dance style.

Music is an important part of most public events in traditional New Orleans culture. Processions with music include the periodic parades of benevolent societies, social aid & pleasure clubs, Carnival krewes, and of course the famous funerals with music, often called "jazz funerals".

The "first line" consisted of the people who were an integral part of the ceremony, such as the members of the club or krewe, or family and friends of the deceased at a funeral. The "second line" originally referred to people who were attracted to the music. Traditionally such people would follow behind the "first line". (In the final decades of the 20th century it became more common for some such onlookers who joined the procession to mix in or even get ahead of the band and first line, behavior considered a social faux-pas by older New Orleanians.)

To follow such processions because one enjoyed the music came to be known as to "second line" or to be "second lining". As music is traditionally participatory, not something one listens to without moving, uninhibited dancing at processions also came to be called second lining.

The magazine of the New Orleans Jazz Club "The Second Line" took its name from the tradition in 1949.
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2006, 02:09 PM »
Here's my article on the subject, written back in 2001:

Second Line Drumming - Basics

One thing that I don't completely explain in the article is that the modern-day Second Line is more of a march two-beat rhythm, like what you hear in "When The Saints Go Marching In". The rhythm I have notated in my article is now referred to as Mardi Gras Indian Beat, used in tunes such as "Hey Pocky Way".
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2006, 02:11 PM »
Quote from: Jon E on May 23, 2006, 02:09 PM
Yeah, but what does it mean?

Read my article!
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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2006, 02:16 PM »
Sorry, Bart.  I was reading and posting c. the same time you were.
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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2006, 03:38 PM »
thanks, bart! that makes sense now, given the context of what I was reading.
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