New Atlantis [[electronic resource] ] : musicians battle for the survival of New Orleans / / John Swenson
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Swenson John
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| Titolo: |
New Atlantis [[electronic resource] ] : musicians battle for the survival of New Orleans / / John Swenson
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 780.9763/35 |
| Soggetto topico: | Music - Political aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans |
| Music - Social aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans | |
| Musicians - Louisiana - New Orleans | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | New Atlantis |
| ISBN: | 1-283-13431-4 |
| 9786613134318 | |
| 0-19-978145-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460895603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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