New Atlantis : musicians battle for the survival of New Orleans /

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Author / Creator:	Swenson, John.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 284 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Music -- Political aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans. Music -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans. Musicians -- Louisiana -- New Orleans. Music -- Political aspects. Music -- Social aspects. Musicians. Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11257866

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ISBN:	9780199781454 0199781451 1283134314 9781283134316 9786613134318 6613134317 9780199754526 0199754527
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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 history by fire, pestilence, crime, flood, and oil spills. Working for little money and in spite of having lost their own homes and.
Other form:	Print version: Swenson, John. New Atlantis. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199754526

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