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New Atlantis - Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans (Hardcover)
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New Atlantis - Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans (Hardcover)
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At its most intimate, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires
us; at its most public, it unites people across cultural
boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? Renowned music writer John
Swenson asks that question with New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for
the Survival of New Orleans, a story about America's most colorful
and troubled city and its indominable will to survive. Under sea
level, repeatedly harangued by fires, crime, and most
devastatingly, by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has the potential
to one day become a "New Atlantis," a lost metropolis under the
waves. But this threat has failed to prevent its stalwart musicians
and artists from living within its limits, singing its praises and
attracting the economic growth needed for its recovery. New
Atlantis records how the city's jazz, Cajun, R&B, Bourbon
Street, second line, brass band, rock and hip hop musicians are
reconfiguring the city's unique artistic culture, building on its
historic content while reflecting contemporary life in New Orleans.
New Atlantis is a city's tale made up of citizen's tales. It's the
story of Davis Rogan, a songwriter, bandleader and schoolteacher
who has become an integral part of David Simon's new HBO series
Treme (as compelling a story about New Orleans as The Wire was
about Baltimore). It's the story of trumpeter Irvin Mayfield, who
lost his father in the storm and has since become an important
political and musical force shaping the future of New Orleans. It's
the story of Bo Dollis Jr., chief of the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras
Indians, as he tries to fill the shoes of his ailing father Bo
Dollis, one of the most charismatic figures in Mardi Gras Indian
history. It is also the author's own story; each musician profiled
will be contextualized by Swenson's three-decades-long coverage of
the New Orleans music scene.
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