The Rise and Fall of the Tremé Neighborhood
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2019
- Directly adjacent to the French Quarter in New Orleans, the Tremé is the oldest African-American neighborhood in the United States, as well as the birthplace of jazz music. Tremé's influence on broader American culture can't be overstated, and its people have surmounted numerous challenges over the last three hundred years, including social upheaval following the Civil War, racist legislation during the 20th century, and more recently the implacable march of urban gentrification.
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Hearing that pseudo Game of Thrones analysis made my blood pressure go up.
Same
@@donalddavis303 I thought it was kinda great, but he shouldn't have explained the whole Patreon tier, just panned the image in to fill the whole screen and let us take in the irritation as he silently stares directly into the camera.
@@samuelbartlett4870 No, he should have made the video he wanted to make. Which he did.
In other words, obviously, you're in the wrong.
WTF!
I’m a 5th generation Jazz musician. I was born and raised in the Treme, but in the last 6 years African Americans have basically been priced out of the neighborhood. The first African American neighborhood in America is
now maybe 20%African American. The average rent is $1500. My aunt lived in the Treme for 60 years, she now lives in Mid-City because a young white guy bought the house and raised the rent by $1200. Before Katrina she was probably paying $500 a month then after Katrina (2005)she paid $850 a month. By 2012 she was paying $2000 a month in the same exact house.
And now it's a nice neighborhood. 🙄
@@tubafats100 Surely it's because an old lady was the reason for all this crime in the neighborhood
60 years on rent?
@@potdragon8091 well you can blame I-10 and that crappy auditorium for being a bad neighborhood.
yep, nothing but a bunch of white yuppie woke hippies now because they saw it on TV and thought it would be so cool to live there
What happened in Treme’ with the I-10 is the same as what happened here in Detroit when I-375 was built directly on top of a neighborhood known as “Black Bottom” where all of the Black jazz greats played in the roaring 20’s. Truly a shame.
Same thing happened in Overtown, Miami. Historical Black neighborhood destroyed by the I-95 overpass. America has a habit of this.
@@lastshallbefirst5516 We got the “Claiborne overpass” here in New Orleans about 50 yrs ago. Not only did it cut straight through where the Black Mardi Indian tribes met on Mardi Gras and St Joseph’s Day, they cut down the hundreds of beautiful majestic live oak trees that lined the street, along the very wide median that had basically been a green space/park for generations for this black community, who not only had every right to enjoy the beauty of the space recreationally, it was the space where black traditions were preserved for over a hundred years. The people in this city who have always paid the price for “economic progress” and gentrification, are the same people who the city tourist board calls tradition-bearers, which they absolutely are, but the city exploits all its black musical traditions for the economic tourism it brings, and does nil for the actual people and communities whose talent and traditions have been the driving force behind the city’s main economic engine: international tourism.
And btw, all of the approx 4,000 professional musicians in this city are currently out of work, with very few if any receiving any kind of unemployment payment. My brother is a jazz piano player and performs at a Bourbon St club with an outdoor patio, and he’s one of the “lucky ones” earning a little money, but he agreed to play for tips only during this time, even though the street is still packed with tourists. As a 65 yr old diabetic, he’ risking his life and earning tips only, just so he can still have have his job when this is all over. (hopefully so, because the club owners don’t actually guarantee anything,) Another issue for people like my brother who have acted in good faith for their employers like this is: when the city allowed music clubs to go to the next stage of opening up and the number of tourists shot up to basically the typical numbers, that club did not go back to paying him his salary! They’re exploiting musicians who are desperate for any money they can get to survive right now, at a time when instead of earning pennies on the dollar they used to make, these musicians should actually be earning HAZARD PAY!
@@redlipstickmafia Great insight on New Orleans! I visited in 2017, Bayou Classic, and was Amazed by the Jazz musicians on the streets. I left convinced that New Orleans is the greatest & most unique city in America, only if America took care of “Her.” What a shame... and along the Mississippi River with St. Louis & Memphis. This country has destroyed the spirit of these great historical cities. They exploit Black culture and then abandon the cities... and then blame Black folks for all the despair. I look forward to visiting again
And central park in new York.
@@lastshallbefirst5516 Sad but true. One thing about this place is the people are the living culture, the living embodiment of the culture. After Katrina it really hit me that this city IS its people, not real estate.
I’m so glad that you love New Orleans! Hope you get a chance to visit soon! (after Covid, that is)
Thanks for the history! I love learning about New Orleans!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@AtunSheiFilms
New Orleans and other port cities
are very full of cultural diversity .
The pride of accepting others usually
shines through in New Orleans.
Biggest group of food ,music and story
swappers I know.
Dude's a Knight of the Cruciform Sword!!! Stay out of those petroleum-soaked catacombs when this guy's around. Checkmate, Lincolnites!
MY SOUL IS PREPARED, DR. JONES! HOW'S YOURS??
Maybe me hearings off but I always thought it was the Chrysanthemum Sword
I saw that and thought the exact same thing!
Now I REALLY want to hear that filthy early jazz!!
Buy the DVD call "The Naked Dance", it will show and talk about early Jazz in the Red Light District on Rampart Street in New Orleans.
Listen to the Alan Lomax (Library of Congress) interviews with Jelly Roll Morton. Mindblowing , and pretty dirty in places, lol. It’s incredible to hear him describe all of these details about gigging in New Orleans around the turn of the century. He was a true musical genius. And his stories are incredible!
I’ve had this on 4 cds for a long time, but i think they’re on UA-cam now.
Some things never change
Other historians claim that the name jazz is actually derived from the name of a style of bar-music of extraterrestrials a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
The more he talks about New Orleans the more I want to visit
You definitely are a big inspiration for me, I love New Orleans and wanna move there,seeing your videos and all the historic facts really expand my knowledge !
Keep up the great work and content ⚜⚜⚜⚜
Do it! I got to take care of some fam here but would love to live there for a few years! Nothing like it..
I visited New Orleans a couple years ago and walked through this neighborhood with my friends to visit St. Peter Claver's, a church my brother volunteered at and that is very close to his heart. I remember feeling bad that an interstate cut right through the neighborhood (now I feel even worse) and I stopped on the way back to visit the park and smoke next to that eye sore of a building. Thanks for filling in the history I should have known when I was there!
Also, for the record I did not stay in an air BnB in a gentrified neighborhood, we stayed in a cheap motel on a sketchy strip near the canal like a poor college student should
Legend! Visiting New Orleans from Australia and binge watching these.
The I-10 damaging the Treme reminds me of how I-94 screwed with Riverwest here in Milwaukee. In a similar way, the interstate cutting the Northeast in half destroyed property value. It's an uncanny trend; interstate projects in cities cutting through minority neighborhoods...
I started watching your channel because of your videos on the lost cause myth, but I stayed for the New Orleans content. Love learning more about my city. Les Le Bon Temps Roule
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I'm not certain Patreon processed it to the end. There was no final click button.
A huge SHOUT OUT to the silent friends and fans who do the back work.
I am so grateful for your videos, they've been a godsend for me. I'm a first year Urban Planning grad student and I got assigned a huge paper on the history of New Orleans. I'd love to cite you if you've ever published anything, you've given me so many good jumping off points for topics to research that I feel kind of guilty.. Is there any other way to donate besides Patreon? I'm not really a fan of the subscription model, I may do it anyways you've given me too much.
Big cheers and keep up the good work!
Awesome, great to hear!
Edit: sorry, no, I don't have anything published.
This is my new favorite channel! I recommend it to all my history buff friends (sadly a shrinking pool 😥). Everything from CHECKMATE, LINCOLNITES! to little slices of American history like this are just gold!
Awesome stuff man ! Really enjoyed the video. I loved the treme on my visit to NOLA. I ate at willie May's scotch house & a place called cajun seafood across from mother in law lounge. AMAZING food . Your videos get better and better!
5:15 so if that is true then the word jazz is based on jizz and then George Lucas made a form of music for Star wars that he called jizz which he based on jazz.
The singers of which being called "jizz wailers" in the compendium I had as a kid...
George Lucas probably knew this
Thank you for the great information! Fascinating neighborhood/history!
My pleasure!
I just noticed that you have a Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword tattoo and that’s badass!
You just taught me how to relate to Patreon. I can't thank you enough.
Love your history lessons! Keep me interested for the whole time
Late to the event here...... your work is outstanding. Thank you good Sir!
Just subscribed right now. I was lead here from the Let's Talk Religion channel. You Tube is like a garden party where you jump from one funny experience to another. Great channel, keep the good work, love the content. ❤
Well, in regards to gentrification in general there's one knock-on effect of the pandemic that's relatively positive: AirBnB has TANKED over the past few months. No one is renting anything short term, and it's really hitting the speculators who mortgaged/rented/leased property in order to sublet it. It's affecting them the most because they've overextended themselves and their finances aren't stable unless a very high percentage of their properties are occupied at all times. Look for real estate prices to tumble right across the board in the coming months.
LarsBlitzer good point! And maybe Airbnb can go back to being a bit more about people and connection, less for the profit. (I’m an in-home host, don’t make a profit just prefer meeting interesting international people to having to deal with running a sharehouse).
Talk about karma she is real and gets even.
2022 is knocking at the door. Your 2020 silver lining is a big nothing burger now as bigger problems unfold.
Not many know about this district, thank you for doing this video.
I’d been considering for a while to start a youtube channel focusing on new orleans culture and history. I’d go to historic sites around the city and use them as a backdrop for the vid. Turns out, a guy name Atun Shei has already been doing this for years! Keep it up; New Orleans history deserves to be preserved 🙂
Finally, someone (besides myself) to stand and proclaim to the world "Game of Thrones is stupid!"
book is all good, show is al good except last season tbh.
So glad I found your channel! Stuff like the information in this video, the Tremé neighborhood is the sort of background detail I need for my book! Would very much like to learn whatever you might know about it during the early 1930’s? Thanks again!
What's rgw book you're writing about?
I remember watching that show Tremé. I liked it a lot. From the guy behind The Wire
When I was in NOLA in March 2019 we did a tour of the Treme neighborhood by a tour company ran out of the Voodoo Lounge. A great and informative tour.
We came back to New Orleans after Katrina. What you say hit home for us. The place is Disneyland for the tourists.
don't think I didn't notice your brotherhood of the cruciform sword tattoo 😉 honestly inspired, now i kinda want one
I love your vids btw, huge fan
I love your videos dude. Keep up the good work. Do you plan on doing more videos on Civil War sites near you such as Vicksburg or Jones county?
Maybe, though the Western Theater isn't really my specialty.
@@AtunSheiFilms It's where the war was actually won, though! (That, and on the coasts, and by diplomats in Britain and France.)
Somebody tell me why i am getting obsessed with these videos? I know i love history but damn!
2011 N Claiborne @ Frenchmen...My childhood home Right around the corner from Jelly Roll Mortons home...
Nice. ❤️ Jelly Roll Morton (Ferdinand Lamothe)
I am obsessed with your channel thank you. You have a very attractive mind I enjoy watching very much.
On the Louisiana Native Guard:
Saying they "served" in the Confederate army is not true. The Confederate government refused to take them in as they did not want Blacks fighting for them, no matter what their status. They were part of the state and city militia, and were disbanded and reformed multiple times, as the Louisiana government had no clue what to do with them. They were disbanded for the final time (for the confederacy) when Farragut sailed his fleet past the forts.
When the regiment was reformed for union service, the Afro-Creole officers were replaced by White ones. I've seen idiot friends of mine say "SEE, the South let the regiment have their own black officers, but not the North. The North must be more racist". Thing is, the reason the Native Guard kept their black-creole officers in Confederate service was because they were not officially part of the army. It was a "who cares" sort of situation, they weren't a military unit, why bother removing their officers if they aren't even gonna be used.
Finally, the regiment switched sized, and it ballooned from a single regiment (or battalion, if you want to be legit when it comes with Civil War era units in comparison to other nations militaries) to 15. Though, most of these were formed from former slaves instead of rich freeman like the original regiment.
Thanks, you actually know what you’re talking about.
I enjoyed this. My maternal bloodlines are in the 7th ward, commonly refered to in the city as 7th ward creoles.
There used to be white Creoles in the 7th ward too back when most of the city was white in 1960’s. They are called French Creoles. The Creoles there now are Creoles of color. The French Creoles used to all mostly live in the French quarter, but at the turn of the century around 1900, lots of Italians began moving into the French quarter in large numbers and the French Creoles (white Creoles) moved all down esplanade and into the 7th, 8th and 9th wards and mid-city. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, New Orleans was majority white but in the 1970’s, New Orleans started getting more black but was still majority white and by 1980, the city was half black half white and by the 1990’s it was mostly black and most of the French Creoles (white Creoles) moved out to the suburbs and parts of uptown, and those still in mid-city stayed in mid-city.
if i became a patron, how often do you do these? how many of these are there? this may be the most entertaining thing on here.
Mostly click on this video to see how to pronounce Tremé. Thank you for the info.
Danke!
I love new Orleans history!!!
Awesome video! Would you (or anyone else) know of any good Louisiana/New Orleans history books?
"The world that made New Orleans"
This guy is so great
" The Strong do what they can, and the Weak suffer what they must ". Athenian dialogue with the people of Melos.
The Orcs of Isengard...an apt analogy.
Wow!! But the GOT segue...didnt see that coming :) :) :) :)
1:34 half expected a skillshare ad-read there
Man, that mention of the family on their porch has me wanting a 10lb bag of boiled crawfish and a Sunday times picayune (I assume it's the only edition with enough mass to soak up all the juice and wrap up the shells when we're done)
why am i drunk 2 am and watching this video. great stuff though! greeting from Tallinn!
It's 2023 and I'm still mad about that ending
You should look at some of Justin Nystrom's work. He's a history prof at my glorious alma mater - Loyola. I lived in the Treme briefly. Love the neighborhood. Twas dangerous as shit tho.
et quand vous avez un peu de temps inutilisée (down time)
un court vid sur la culture français en Nouvelle Orléans?
😂 The end is brilliant...
the music the Cantina Band plays in Star Wars is called Jizz
Was the song House of the Rising Sun based off of storyville?
Interesting to hear what AirB&B is doing to inner city housing in New Orleans, we're seeing much the same thing in Edinburgh.
I got around that by staying with a friend, who is now my girlfriend of over a year. The Haunted Dungeon and Camera Obscura are my favourite attractions in Edinburgh, btw.
Wow!
OMG BOYD'S JOURNEY!!!
Just booked a Airbnb in that neighborhood
😕
where is the music at the end of the video?
What can you tell us about Bichuel?
Would you be interested in doing similar videos for Baton Rouge ?
Da Boot could be any really. Old south , Scotlandville, eden park , Beauregard town , etc.
The house you are standing in front of runs about 300.00 per night on Airbnb/vrbo
YES, on the point on the interstate being run through Treme, this happened a LOT through Black neighborhoods all over America. THIS also helped to destroy many vibrant Black neighborhoods in cities. There was an attempt to run I95 through Rock Creek Park in DC. Which was a wealthy section of Washington DC. Which the wealthy managed to get stopped.
I think it’s a feature of less affluent areas, not necessarily black areas. Because even when most US cities were mostly white, such as New Orleans, those areas near interstate high rises would usually just have less affluent people because of the road noise. But that’s not always the case as there are exceptions to this rule.
I went to an event in a Claiborne backyard, under that thing, and it really is an unholy feeling. Knowing that it was once a normal neighborhood is saddening. It feels apocalyptic.
Hey man, where is your history on the Marigny?
The transition to GOT hit like a bat
Is that the cross of the cruciform sword on your chest from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?
That Toyota in the back is parked on the curb
The first plan for the I-10 was to build it along the river front...Uh...no thanks. The best place for it, I think, was to just have it built where the current 6-10 is, closer to the lake by the City Park. But, you can't stop progress.
did you like the the show based on this neighborhood?
I am thinking about moving to New Orleans. I am planning on visiting as often as possible. I would like to stay in neighborhoods that I am thinking of moving to. Is it then a bad idea to rent short term lodging in neighborhoods such as theses? Would it be a step further towards gentrification of these neighborhoods.
I'm from Portland and watched the gentrification of the black neighborhoods in NE Portland happened so fast. I would like to try my best and not contribute to that happening in New Orleans.
I miss New Orleans.
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Remove that damn freeway!
What’s the tattoo? I’m prolly dumb but I can’t tell
6:20 - Jazz Everywhere.
Backstreet Cultural Museum?
Glad to hear that Backstreet's Back, All right.
If you are not a 90s kid, you would not have gotten that joke.
somehow star wars jazz being named "jizz" just sounds even worse now
Memphis tried to run I-40 through some historic neighborhoods and Overton Park and the ghost of Ol' Abe Plough (and some money he left) stopped them....I think NOLA is the only place I can order a Bloody Mary with breakfast and no one bats an eye.
Just go out a couple nights a month and shoot in the air. Keeps the rent low.
🤣
9:09
You had an opportunity.
And you missed it.
5:32 But General Patton said:"Nothing boosts morale like bad moral."
REGENTRIFICATION has killed the native culture across the usa. but we also cannot keep the neighborhoods in a rough state that's not preserving any culture or bringing in any revenue I'd prefer that the neighborhood gets preserved and rebuilt by their own. start small businesses and keep the culture within.
The gigantic overpass that was built over Claiborne Ave. is actually part of I-10 and it was not the fault of local politicians that many houses in Treme were demolished along with a lot of history.
This was the plans of our federal government/D.O.T. Also I used to hang out and play poker at Prout's Main Brace(bar) and buy my "caps" at Congress Hats on Claiborne, and my father who owned a shoe repair shop (on St. Bernard Ave and N. Broad) made English Style riding boots for the Jockeys used to buy his supplies from Pizzo's Leather Goods on Claiborne Ave........anyway is Prouts. Pizzo's, and Congrasss Hats still in business/by the new generation/same name.... Thanks "Podnah", BJM
I left New Orleans in 2000. I was sitting here thinking, "Man, this guy is brave as fuck."
Is it normal for people to park their cars halfway onto the sidewalk like that? 0:25
Deanerys going insane was predicted by Matpat.
On a good note, I will now think Treme when I think about how bad that season of GoT was, and as the thinking Wars of the Roses had stopped at least I have a thing to replace it with.
What role did the TV show Treme have on yuppifying the neighborhood?
Gentrification is good and bad. It happened here in dc, it happened in Philly, Charleston, New York etc. as a person who likes to travel I find gentrification mostly a good thing because the culture is preserved while the area becomes more accessible and in time the wealth spreads to the whole community.
Poor people are kicked out of the community and all of the local restaurants are replaced by chains. It's pretty shit culturally. Good for the taxbase but its contradictory because you want the taxbase to serve poor people.
No, gentrification is anything but good. Gentrification is the movement and preservation of capital using and commercializing the corpse of culture. You displace the native community to introduce a deeply commerce & service based economy.
Gentrification in essence can be considered a violent form of displacement which is pushed by land speculators and realtors.
I am from the Bay Area CA and can not tell you enough times how gentrification has devastated San Francisco and surrounding cities creating massive rent hikes, exponential increase in homelessness, a spike in petty crime, and has homogenized the city.
Fyi, I studied the economic impact of the commercialization of inner cities through the use of Neoliberal Policy at the UC Berkeley department of Environmental Design and Urban Planning
@@John-ir4id Terrible for tourists since people want the old stuff. Generic modernist city #3324 will only get tourism via people wanting to see family.
You really know how to make a man cry with a joke about Saruman...
When your Treme V neck becomes a U neck
Did you ever forgive him?
I always heard that the name Jazz came from how the prostitutes would wear jasmine purfume.
Do you actually mean what you said about Game of Thrones? Or did you just say that because you got paid? I don't watch that show.
Did they smoke the....
*Jazz Cabbage* ?
Speaking of orcs and Isengard... wasn't Isengard hit with a massive flood as punishment for its wicked ways? Oof.
Go fuck yourself