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Author Sublette, Ned, 1951-

Title The year before the flood : a story of New Orleans / Ned Sublette.

Publication Info. Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Front Cover; Front Flap; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; PART I NACKATISH; 1 Jump Jim Crow; 2 Are You a Yankee or Are You a Rebel?; 3 The Good Darkey; 4 Made Out of Mud; 5 Tell It Like It Is; PART II THE YEAR BEFORE THE FLOOD; 6 Constance Street; 7 Ivan the Terrible; 8 Elysian Blues; 9 The Kalunga Line; 10 Creative Destruction; 11 Whips and Ice; 12 The Day of the Dead; 13 The Blizzard of '04; 14 King Kong; 15 The Heart of the Pranks; 16 The Wild West; 17 The End Is Near So Drink a Beer; 18 Frankly, I Doubt Any of It Happened; 19 The Strain of the Festival; 20 Super Sunday.
Summary With a style the "Los Angeles Times "calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to "The World That Made New Orleans," Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 2004-2005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and pol.
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Subject Popular music -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History and criticism.
Popular music.
Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Musicology -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Musicology.
Musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Musicians.
Music -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Music -- Social aspects.
History.
Music -- Political aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Music -- Political aspects.
Music.
New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Sublette, Ned, 1951- Year before the flood. Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2009 9781556528248 1556528248 (DLC) 2009011472 (OCoLC)316057015
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