Goin' Home
Genre/Style: Trad jazz
Touchstones: “When the Saints Go Marching In”; Armstrong and Oliver, “Dippermouth Blues”
Themes: Nostos, travel, liminal spaces, the supernatural in the ancient world, the supernatural in the American South, trickster figures, enslaved peoples’ cultures in the USA
Work: Homer, Odyssey (ca. 8th C. BCE)