ABSTRACT
“Neo-HooDoo never been to France,” wrote Ishmael Reed in his “Neo-HooDoo Manifesto” of the late 1960s. Instead,
Neo-HooDoo is the 8 basic dances of 19-century New Orleans’ Place Congo—the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the Voodoo. … “Everybody from New Orleans got that thing,” Louis Armstrong said once. … Neo-HooDoo borrows from Ancient Egyptians. … Neo-HooDoo borrows from Haiti Africa and South America. 1
