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New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
Lewis Watts
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Description for New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
Paperback. Focusing on the New Orleans African American community, this title pays 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. Num Pages: 158 pages, 91 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; AV; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 180 x 15. Weight in Grams: 492. Music and Culture in Transition. 158 pages, illustrations. Focusing on the New Orleans African American community, this title pays 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. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; AV; JFCA; JFSL3. Dimension: 254 x 180 x 15. Weight: 492.
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 have happened to them in the ... Read more
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 have happened to them in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
158
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
491g
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520273887
SKU
V9780520273887
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About Lewis Watts
Eric Porter is Professor of American Studies, History, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of What Is This Thing Called Jazz? (UC Press), winner of a 2003 American Book Award, and The Problem of the Future World. Lewis Watts is Professor of Art at the University of California, Santa ... Read more
Reviews for New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
"[Provides] stunning insight into the day-to-day lives of the citizens of New Orleans, both before and after the storm." Critical Studies in Improvisation