The Year Before the Flood by Ned Sublette
With a style the Los Angeles Times calls as vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves, Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The World That Made New Orleans, Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 2004-2005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and polemical, The Year Before the Flood juxtaposes the city's crowded calendar of parties, festivals, and parades with the murderousness of its poverty and its legacy of racism. Along the way, Sublette opens up windows of American history that illuminate the present: the trajectory of Mardi Gras from pre-Civil War days, the falsification of Southern history in movies, the city's importance to early rock and roll, the complicated story of its housing projects, the uniqueness of its hip-hop scene, and the celebratory magnificence of the participatory parades known as second lines. With a grand, unforgettable cast of musicians and barkeeps, scholars and thugs, vibrating with the sheer excitement of New Orleans, The Year Before the Flood is an affirmation of the power of the city's culture and a heartbreaking tale of loss that definitively establishes Ned Sublette as a great American writer for the 21st century.The World That Created New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, and The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Business are among the books written by Ned Sublette. For seven years, he coproduced the public radio show Afropop Worldwide as cofounder of the record company Qbadisc. He lives in New York City and works as a writer, record producer, and musician.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781613736746 |
| ISBN 10 | 1613736746 |
| Title | The Year Before the Flood |
| Author | Ned Sublette |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Lawrence Hill Books |
| Year published | 2017-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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