Watts, Lewis, 1946-

New Orleans suite music and culture in transition / Lewis Watts and Eric Porter. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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 h



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Popular music--Social aspects--Louisiana--New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects.


Electronic Books.

ML3917 / .N496 2013