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New Orleans Rhythm and Blues After Katrina: Music, Magic and Myth
Michael Urban
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Description for New Orleans Rhythm and Blues After Katrina: Music, Magic and Myth
Hardback. Relying on 56 open-ended interviews with members of the musical community in New Orleans, Michael Urban shows how the pleasure of participation in this storied assemblage outweighs commercial considerations. Music making and personal lives move in tandem, each reflecting an orientation elevating group goals over individual achievements. Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; AVGQ; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
Music, magic and myth are elements essential to the identities of New Orleans musicians. The city's singular contributions to popular music around the world have been unrivaled; performing this music authentically requires collective improvisation, taking performers on sonorous sojourns in unanticipated, 'magical' moments; and membership in the city's musical community entails participation in the myth of New Orleans, breathing new life into its storied traditions. On the basis of 56 open-ended interviews with those in the city's musical community, Michael Urban discovers that, indeed, community is what it is all about. In their own words, informants explain that commercial concerns ... Read more
Music, magic and myth are elements essential to the identities of New Orleans musicians. The city's singular contributions to popular music around the world have been unrivaled; performing this music authentically requires collective improvisation, taking performers on sonorous sojourns in unanticipated, 'magical' moments; and membership in the city's musical community entails participation in the myth of New Orleans, breathing new life into its storied traditions. On the basis of 56 open-ended interviews with those in the city's musical community, Michael Urban discovers that, indeed, community is what it is all about. In their own words, informants explain that commercial concerns ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Pop Music, Culture and Identity
Condition
New
Weight
371g
Number of Pages
181
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137565747
SKU
V9781137565747
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About Michael Urban
Michael Urban is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Although his career has focused on the study of Russian politics-yielding titles such as The Rebirth of Politics in Russia (1997) and Cultures of Power in Post-Communist Russia (2010) - it has also included space for the study of music and community - as in ... Read more
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