1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460895603321

Autore

Swenson John

Titolo

New Atlantis [[electronic resource] ] : musicians battle for the survival of New Orleans / / John Swenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-13431-4

9786613134318

0-19-978145-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

780.9763/35

Soggetti

Music - Political aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans

Music - Social aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans

Musicians - Louisiana - New Orleans

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Voice of the wetlands -- African Americans and Indians -- The Constantinople of the New World -- Sad night in Jackson Square -- Return of the spirits -- Let it go -- Don't let them wash us away -- Reality check -- Don't take my picture -- Musicians strike back at violence -- I am New Orleans -- Shorty on the block -- The Armstrong legacy -- Cold in the trailer -- If I can help somebody -- Baghdad on the Mississippi -- Brown baby dead in the water -- On the fringes -- City that care forgot -- Wild and free -- Saving at the bank of soul -- It ain't just the suit -- Bourbon Street blues -- Snooks flies away -- Ghosts of traditional jazz -- New blood -- Jazz fest turns 40 -- New Atlantis -- Mcdermott's duets -- Cyril's nightmare -- The wizard of Piety Street -- Blues come down like rain -- Cyril comes full circle -- Marching in.

Sommario/riassunto

At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of the musical artists working to save America's most colorful and



troubled metropolis: New Orleans. The city has been threatened with extinction many times during its three-hundred-plus-year history by fire, pestilence, crime, flood, and oil spills. Working for little money and in spite of having lost their own homes and

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910262958003321

Titolo

African and black diaspora

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Abingdon], : Routledge

ISSN

1752-864X

Disciplina

960

Soggetti

African diaspora

Africans - Foreign countries - Ethnic identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed