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The Definition of Bounce: Between Ups and Downs in New Orleans Review... like a nightmare version of brightestyoungthings/cobrasnake/etc., in which almost everybody is poor, black, and poor. The ladies are fat, the men are muscular, and the parties are the kind of wild you get only when everybody knows there's not going to be a greater escape than this, and tomorrow's not promised to you, anyhow. Our two narrators, 10th Ward Buck and Lucky Johnson, give us the unromantic view of bounce because they consider themselves more businessmen than musicians. Their story traces a financial escape they fashioned out of the emotional escape their music and their parties supplied. Johnson says,
"You had to be a drug dealer, or you had to have gone to jail or had guns. That's what gangsta rap told you. Bounce, you don't have to do that. You can be who you really are when you're at home. When you're at home in the mirror and the music comes on and you want to two-step or dance, bounce allows you to be that person."
Against the music's no-cares attitude, the history of bounce -- as described by a timeline in the book's middle -- includes a sobering amount of murder of its performers. "1993: DJ Irv shot to death in the 7th Ward ... 1996: Everlasting Hitman is murdered on the West Bank ... 1997: UNLV's Albert 'Yella Boy' Thomas is murdered ... 1997: Kilo G is shot and killed in his 7th Ward home, at age 20 ... 1999: On July 31, Warren Mayes is shot to death in his car while leaving a concert at the Treme Center ... 2006: Terence 'Sporty T' Vine is shot to death in his FEMA trailer ..." One photograph shows a metal detector positioned at a club's entrance. In another (from July 2010), 10th Ward Buck lies in a hospital bed after getting shot in the leg during a house party.
Bounce's enormous capacity for joy is inseparable from the difficult social conditions that gave birth to it. That's the feeling pouring from every page in this book, every awkward pose and facial expression, and upward-thrust buttocks. If bounce goes world-scale -- and who knows, maybe Big Freedia's big-time charisma hits the Great Recession with just the right spin -- The Definition of Bounce will be remembered as its Silver Surfer, lean and speedy herald to a planet-rocking, booty-quaking Galactus.The Definition of Bounce: Between Ups and Downs in New Orleans Overview

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