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• W1569755575 abstract "Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul. By Roger D. Abrahams. With Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, and Robert Farris Thompson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 102, introduction. $22.50 cloth) The devastation of New Orleans brought about failure of levees built and maintained federal government in wake of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 has resulted in a spate of books responding to disaster. These have ranged from pictorial volumes produced early on Time (2005) and CNN (2005) to Why New Orleans Matters fiction and jazz writer Tom Piazza (2005) to a collection of storm-related haiku published New Orleans Haiku Society (Lanoue 2006) to Tom Varisco's slim volume of post-storm photographs of tossed-out refrigerators (2005) to such controversial books as The Storm Ivor van Heerden (2006)-a Louisiana State University scientist whose analysis of die Katrina disaster has ruffled some local feathers-and The Great Deluge historian Douglas Brinkley (2006)-accused of trying to influence New Orleans mayoral election of 2006 through his book's negative portrayal of New Orleans mayor C. Ray Nagin. It seems new books appear almost daily, though our ultimate understanding of ramifications of what has been called worst natural disaster in American history awaits subsequent developments and further analyses. There is great concern about future of New Orleans culture, a subject taken up for example Tom Piazza (2005) in a personal and impressionistic way, but a subject which many commentators are ill-equipped to truly deal with. Thus it is good to see a book, Blues for New Orkans, several prominent folklorists which addresses aspects of New Orleans and Louisiana culture in wake of Katrina. It would, however, be wrong to suggest that this book speaks primarily to issue of how Katrina affected New Orleans culture or that it offers a prediction about how culture will respond to wrenching pressures exerted upon it terrible events. Rather, Blues for New Orleans uses disaster as a sort of background, a kind of bass note for riffing on larger questions about New World. Mardi Gras appears in book's subtitle and authors do write about Mardi Gras, but this is not really a book about Mardi Gras as such. Entirely lacking footnotes or endnotes (the authors apologize for this but felt pressed by urgency of recent events to produce this book in record time [5], and so opted to bypass scholarly apparatus), this short book reads like an extended essay upon a theme, or perhaps one should say upon related themes. Some readers may find book's pace to be a bit rambling, but I prefer to see its pace as freewheeling-a bit like Carnival itself-and ultimately pleasing in its informality. The authors speak of personal anger engendered the insistent neglect of African and other non-Western cultural traditions (4) which have in fact played important roles in development of New World culture but which have often been ignored historians of and other commentators on cultures of Americas. The authors see New World as indeed a creole amalgam of cultures, notably a fusion of those of Africa and Europe across Atlantic. New Orleans and Louisiana are particularly important as center in United States of cultural fusion, a place where compression of influences has been so especially intense. New Orleans becomes a place for understanding creole nature of Americas, especially important because it is politically and socially part of United States, a nation which is not only great power but nation in which significance of many cultural forms and influences has been in past denied. New Orleans becomes emblematic of cultural complexity of United States (and its possible loss a very great threat) as well as a motif in a larger New World pattern. …" @default.
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