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BL
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1008979
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b763349
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Sublette, Ned,1951-
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| Title & Author
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The year before the flood : : a story of New Orleans /\ Ned Sublette.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago, Ill. :: Lawrence Hill Books,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xii, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations (some color)
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130605186X
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: 1569763216
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: 1569763232
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: 9781306051866
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: 9781569763216
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: 9781569763230
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1556528248
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9781556528248
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Front Cover; Front Flap; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; PART I NACKATISH; 1 Jump Jim Crow; 2 Are You a Yankee or Are You a Rebel?; 3 The Good Darkey; 4 Made Out of Mud; 5 Tell It Like It Is; PART II THE YEAR BEFORE THE FLOOD; 6 Constance Street; 7 Ivan the Terrible; 8 Elysian Blues; 9 The Kalunga Line; 10 Creative Destruction; 11 Whips and Ice; 12 The Day of the Dead; 13 The Blizzard of '04; 14 King Kong; 15 The Heart of the Pranks; 16 The Wild West; 17 The End Is Near So Drink a Beer; 18 Frankly, I Doubt Any of It Happened; 19 The Strain of the Festival; 20 Super Sunday.
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| Abstract
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With a style the "Los Angeles Times "calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to "The World That Made New Orleans," Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 2004-2005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and pol.
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Music-- Political aspects-- Louisiana-- New Orleans-- History.
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Music-- Social aspects-- Louisiana-- New Orleans-- History.
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Musicians-- Louisiana-- New Orleans.
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Musicology-- Louisiana-- New Orleans.
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Popular music-- Louisiana-- New Orleans-- History and criticism.
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MUSIC-- History Criticism.
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Music-- Political aspects.
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Music-- Social aspects.
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Musicians.
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Musicology.
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Popular music.
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Social conditions
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New Orleans (La.), Social conditions.
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Louisiana, New Orleans.
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| Dewey Classification
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780.9763/35
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| LC Classification
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ML3477.8.N44Y43 2009eb
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