[PDF.00nv] Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soul (The City in the Twenty-First Century)

Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soul (The City in the Twenty-First Century)

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 | #2083572 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2006-02-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.44 x5.51l,.62 | File type: PDF | 112 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Not to be missed by anybody who cares about New Orleans culture|By W. Welburn|Superficially this is a book written collectively by a group of writers about New Orleans right after Katrina. And if readers stop there, they'll miss a much deeper read. This is a remarkable excursion into Black culture by scholars who know what they are talking about and have taken their combined| ||"Blues for New Orleans is a generous study of Mardi Gras, but it is also a creative intervention, a passionate explanation (and defense) of creolization, a cultural rescue operation. It is a furious, blues-tinged, erudite hymn to our greatest vernacula

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered jazz music, made of old parts and put together in utterly new ways; architecture that commingled Norman rooflines, West Afr...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soul (The City in the Twenty-First Century)   |  Roger D. Abrahams. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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