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)