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With the eyes of the world focussed on the Louisiana oil slick pollution, in the first of two programmes recorded from New Orleans, The Strand looks at how the city's arts and culture has been recovering five years on from Hurricane Katrina.
VIDEO FROM NEW ORLEANS
Five years ago with the breach of levee walls, floods across the city and the destruction of lives and business, New Orleans culture looked like it might not recover. But there is strong evidence for recovery: America's highly-rated HBO TV drama Treme is set in the city, the local team won the Superbowl, many musicians are back and federal dollars are pouring in.
VIDEO FROM NEW ORLEANS
Lolis Eric Elie is a New Orleans-based writer on the TV show Treme. He tells us the little-known history of the real-life Treme neighbourhood - the birthplace of jazz in America. Treme was also a neighbourhood where free men of colour created a French-language newspaper urging social reform over one hundred years before America's Civil Rights movement of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.