Blues for New Orleans : Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul.

By:

Abrahams, Roger

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: The City in the Twenty-First Century SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (109 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780812201000

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blues for New OrleansDDC classification:

394.2509763/35

LOC classification:

GT4211.N4 -- B58 2006eb

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Contents:

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Strange Mergers and Deep Mixture Making -- The Spanish Tinge, Second-Line, and the Black Atlantic Origins of Jazz -- A Festival of Liberation, Protest, Affirmation, and Celebration -- Carnival Knowledge: Mardi Gras in and Beyond New Orleans -- Carnival Along the Gulf Coast -- Conclusion: Mardi Gras Will Never Die.

Summary: "A furious, blues-tinged, erudite hymn to our greatest vernacular city. Read it and weep; read it and rejoice!"--Edward Hirsch, President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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"A furious, blues-tinged, erudite hymn to our greatest vernacular city. Read it and weep; read it and rejoice!"--Edward Hirsch, President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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