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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786175403321

Autore

Watts Lewis <1946->

Titolo

New Orleans suite [[electronic resource] ] : music and culture in transition / / Lewis Watts and Eric Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013

ISBN

0-520-95532-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PorterEric (Eric C.)

Disciplina

306.4/84240976335

Soggetti

Popular music - Social aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Social aspects

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

New Orleans, America, music -- Reflections on Jazz Fest 2006 -- Parading against violence -- Reconstruction's soundtrack -- To reinvent life.

Sommario/riassunto

With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory social and cultural transformations, and seeking to counter inadequate and often pejorative accounts of the people and place that give New Orleans its soul. Focusing for the most part on the city's African American community, New Orleans Suite is a story about people: how bad things have happened to them in the long and short run, how they have persevered by drawing upon and transforming their cultural practices, and what they can teach us about citizenship, politics, and society.