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Author Swenson, John.

Title New Atlantis : musicians battle for the survival of New Orleans / John Swenson
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Music -- Political aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Music -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
Music -- Political aspects
Music -- Social aspects
Musicians
Louisiana -- New Orleans
Form Electronic book
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