Founded in 1718 by two French-Canadian brothers for French King
Louis XIV, New Orleans grew from its roots as a Euro-Caribbean port
city at the nexus of North, Central and South America. Situated at
the bottom of the Mississippi River Delta, the city became "Paris
on the Mississippi", the fashionable cultural capital of the
American South, home to America's first opera house and birthplace
of jazz. Many think of New Orleans, with its antebellum mansions,
aboveground cemeteries and ghostly moss-bearded oaks as a haunted
place. It is certainly the most un-American of American cities,
creating its own laid-back "Big Easy" attitude from the customs of
the people who founded it: French and Spanish colonists, gens de
couleur libres, Northern adventurers, riverboat men, pirates, and
Cajuns. From this eclectic mix of influences has evolved a
distinctive Creole culture, expressed in language, architecture and
cuisine. Louise McKinney explores the soul of this deeply spiritual
and hedonistic place, where every year the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras
bursts forth with outrageous excess. JAZZ CITY: piano "professors,"
jazz funerals and first men of jazz: Buddy Bolden, Sidney Bechet,
"Jelly Roll" Morton and Louis Armstrong; backstreet juke joints, a
French Quarter Opera House and '50s R&B. SACRED AND PROFANE
CITY: a swamp-bound outpost of sensual pleasure in the middle of
the Bible Belt; home to gospel and the Black Indians, zydeco kings
and voodoo queens, Ursuline nuns and Storyville madams. CITY ON THE
MISSISSIPPI: a history of migration, plantations and riverboat
adventures; once the richest city in America, later a bohemian
haven for such writers as Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner and
Tennessee Williams.
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