Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams"
Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Nick Spitzer, University of New Orleans
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Print Materials:
Brinkley, Douglas. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York: William Morrow, 2006.
Hankins, Jonn Ethan ed. Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2003.
Spitzer, Nick, John F. Szwed, Robert Farris Thompson and Roger D. Abrahams. Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soul. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
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Image from Harper's Weekly, March
30, 1861; p. 196. |
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Photograph of Basin Street, circa 1900. |
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David Wharton, "View from Algiers Ferry." |
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Selected excerpts from American Routes
"After the Storm" series: |
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Interview
with New Orleans native and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (RealMedia, 17:32 min.)
http://www.americanroutes.com/ram/AR_0634Congo.ram
Spitzer visits pianist Henry Butler. (RealMedia, 10:52 min.) Butler discusses
returning to a home that had taken six feet of water during hurricane
Katrina. http://www.americanroutes.com/ram/AR_0634HButler.ram |
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American Routes A Public Radio International show hosted by Nick Spitzer. http://www.americanroutes.org/ |
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American
Federation of Musicians: New Orleans Local 174-496 Union of New Orleans Musicians http://www.neworleansmusicians.org/ |
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The
Brookings Institute Special Edition of the Katrina Index http://www.brook.edu/metro/pubs/200512_KatrinaIndex.htm |
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Hurricane
Digital Memory Bank Collecting and preserving the stories of Rita and Katrina. http://hurricanearchive.org/ |
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Hurricane
Katrina Maps Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection at University of Texas, Austin http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/katrina_2005.html |
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Hurricane Katrina
& Rita Clearinghouse Cooperative Established by Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. http://katrina.lsu.edu/ |
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Katrina
Scatters New Orleans' Musicians A National Public Radio report from September 14, 2005. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4845409 |
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The
Day the Music Died An audio slide show from The Guardian's website. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/neworleans/0,,1841653,00.html |
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The
University of Michigan Library Documents Center Government Documents in the News - Hurricane Katrina 2005 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/dn05/dn05govt.html |
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Print Materials:
Brinkley, Douglas. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York: William Morrow, 2006.
Hankins, Jonn Ethan ed. Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2003.
Spitzer, Nick, John F. Szwed, Robert Farris Thompson and Roger D. Abrahams. Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soul. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
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