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New Atlantis - Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans (Paperback)
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New Atlantis - Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans (Paperback)
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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 possessions to Katrina, New Orleans's most
gifted musicians-including such figures as Dr. John, the Neville
Brothers, "Trombone Shorty," and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux-are
fighting back against a tidal wave of problems: the depletion of
the wetlands south of the city (which are disappearing at the rate
of one acre every hour), the violence that has made New Orleans the
murder capitol of the U.S., the waning tourism industry, and above
all the continuing calamity in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (or,
as it is known in New Orleans, the "Federal Flood"). Indeed, most
of the neighborhoods that nurtured the indigenous music of New
Orleans were destroyed in the flood, and many of the elder
statesmen have died or been incapacitated since then, but the
musicians profiled here have stepped up to fill their roles. New
Atlantis is their story. Packed with indelible portraits of
individual artists, informed by Swenson's encyclopedic knowledge of
the city's unique and varied music scene-which includes jazz,
R&B, brass band, rock, and hip hop-New Atlantis is a stirring
chronicle of the valiant efforts to preserve the culture that gives
New Orleans its grace and magic.
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