{"product_id":"new-atlantis-musicians-battle-for-the-survival-of-new-orleans-9780199931712","title":"New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eNew Atlantis\u003c\/em\u003e, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of the musical\u003cbr\u003eartists working to save America's most colorful and troubled metropolis: New Orleans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 possessions to Katrina, New Orleans's most gifted musicians--including such\u003cbr\u003efigures as Dr. John, the Neville Brothers, Trombone Shorty, and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux--are fighting back against a tidal wave of problems: the depletion of the wetlands south of the city (which are disappearing at the rate of one acre every hour), the violence that has made New Orleans the\u003cbr\u003emurder capitol of the US, the waning tourism industry, and above all the continuing calamity in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (or, as it is known in New Orleans, the Federal Flood). Indeed, most of the neighborhoods that nurtured the indigenous music of New Orleans were destroyed in the flood, and\u003cbr\u003emany of the elder statesmen have died or been incapacitated since then, but the musicians profiled here have stepped up to fill their roles. \u003cem\u003eNew Atlantis\u003c\/em\u003e is their story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Swenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199931712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Swenson\u003c\/strong\u003e has been writing about popular music since 1967. He edited the website \u003cem\u003ejazze.com\u003c\/em\u003e for Knit Media and has worked as an editor at \u003cem\u003eCrawdaddy, Rolling Stone, Circus, Saturday Review, Rock World\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOffBeat\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, while publishing articles in virtually every American popular-music magazine of note. Among his previous books are biographies of Bill Haley, John Lennon, Simon and Garfunkel, and Stevie Wonder, as well as reference works such as \u003cem\u003eThe Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition, his writing has won two awards from the Press Club of New Orleans: Best Entertainment Feature in 2007 and Best Critical Review in 2008.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40008395489395,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6eb45251-e8ad-43b2-ab1d-fa1a4ef1c705.jpg?v=1650385239","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/new-atlantis-musicians-battle-for-the-survival-of-new-orleans-9780199931712","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}