An artist's vision of New Orleans

This chapter shows that the Grotton–St. Ange family was the most important political and military family in Upper Louisiana for the half century between 1720 and 1770. Louis St. An...

Abstract Machine vision is the study of how to build intelligent machines which can understand the environment by vision. Among many existing books on this subject, ...

Abstract Many jazz fans and critics--and even some jazz musicians--contend that white players have contributed little of substance to the music; that even, with e...

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, outsiders will have two versions of the Katrina experience. One version will be the images they recall from news coverage of the aftermath. The o...

The Politics of Authenticating: Revisiting New Orleans Jazz sets forth an entirely new approach to the study of authenticity, based not upon a search for finding the ‘true’ meaning...