(Brent Edwards – English) Archiving the Jazz city; New Orleans is not only the “birthplace of jazz,” but also (along with New York and Chicago) one of the few most significant sites of its archivization. Jazz scholars were worried, in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, about the state of the irreplaceable artefacts of U.S. music history threatened by the hurricane, including both historic sites such as Preservation Hall and institutional archives such as the Hogan Archive at Tulane. (In fact, the conservation of the sites and objects of New Orleans music history was one of the major features of the proposal submitted by the mayor's cultural commission just a few days ago.) I would be interested in thinking at greater length about the archiving of jazz in the context of the reconstruction of New Orleans. This would necessitate a consideration of the standards and (admittedly uneven) achievements of archival jazz history more broadly, as well as a consideration of a host of related issues with regard to New Orleans in particular: these might include cultural heritage, preservation, city arts policy, “public” arts and performance (especially with regard to parade culture in the city), and the economics of tourism.