New Atlantis

by John Swenson

Book Overview

At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of the musical artists working to save America's most colorful and troubled metropolis: New Orleans.
The city has been threatened with extinction many times during its three-hundred-plus-year...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199754527
• ISBN13: 9780199754526
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"