New Orleans Rhythm and Blues After Katrina: Music, Magic and Myth

by Michael Urban

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137565748
• ISBN13: 9781137565747
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"