In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm--a city legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition-rich splendor. In City of a Million Dreams , Jason Berry delivers a character-driven history of New Orleans at its tricentennial. Chronicling cycles of invention, struggle, death, and rebirth, Berry reveals the city's survival as a triumph of diversity, its map-of-the-world neighborhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods.
Berry orchestrates a parade of vibrant personalities, from the founder Bienville, a warrior emblazoned with snake tattoos; to Governor William C. C. Claiborne, General Andrew Jackson, and Pere Antoine, an influential priest and secret agent of the Inquisition; Sister Gertrude Morgan, a street evangelist and visionary artist of the 1960s; and Michael White, the famous clarinetist who remade his life after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina. The textured profiles of this extraordinary cast furnish a dramatic narrative of the beloved city, famous the world over for mysterious rituals as people dance when they bury their dead.
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City of a million dreams: a histor y of New Orleans at year 300

Berry, Jason;

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Pediatrics

Enamel Arts Foundation

United States, United States of America

Illustrated, PT, 2018

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Memory of the World Librarian: outernationale

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In 2015, The Beautiful Jazz Funeral In New Orleans For Composer Allen Toussaint Coincided With A Debate Over Removing Four Confederate Monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu Led The Ceremony, Attended By Living Legends Of Jazz, Music Aficionados, Politicians, And Everyday People. The Scene Captured The History And Culture Of The City In Microcosm--a City Legendary For Its Noisy, Complicated, Tradition-rich Splendor. In City Of A Million Dreams, Jason Berry Delivers A Character-driven History Of New Orleans At Its Tricentennial. Chronicling Cycles Of Invention, Struggle, Death, And Rebirth, Berry Reveals The City's Survival As A Triumph Of Diversity, Its Map-of-the-world Neighborhoods Marked By Resilience Despite Hurricanes, Epidemics, Fires, And Floods. In The Hum Of A B-flat City -- Bienville: Journey Into The Interior -- St. Maló In The Memory Rings -- The Great Fire And Procession For Carlos Iii -- City Of Migrants -- Claiborne: A City Embattled -- Pirates, Black Soldiers, And The War Under Jackson -- The Builder And The Priest -- The Burial Master: Times Of Yellow Fever And War -- The Time Of Jazz -- Sicilians In The Meld -- Mother Catherine And The Lower Ninth Ward -- Sister Gertrude Morgan: Running For The City -- The Last Days Of Danny Barker -- Dr. Michael White And The Widow's Wail -- After The Flood. Jason Berry. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In The Hum Of A B-flat City -- Bienville: Journey Into The Interior -- St. Mal�o In The Memory Rings -- The Great Fire And Procession For Carlos Iii -- City Of Migrants -- Claiborne: A City Embattled -- Pirates, Black Soldiers, And The War Under Jackson -- The Builder And The Priest -- The Burial Master: Times Of Yellow Fever And War -- The Time Of Jazz -- Sicilians In The Meld -- Mother Catherine And The Lower Ninth Ward -- Sister Gertrude Morgan: Running For The City -- The Last Days Of Danny Barker -- Dr. Michael White And The Widow's Wail -- After The Flood.

En 2015, les magnifiques funérailles jazz du compositeur Allen Toussaint à la Nouvelle-Orléans ont coïncidé avec un débat sur le retrait de quatre monuments confédérés. Le maire Mitch Landrieu a dirigé la cérémonie, à laquelle assistaient des légendes vivantes du jazz, des aficionados de la musique, des politiciens et des gens ordinaires. La scène a capturé l'histoire et la culture de la ville en microcosme - une ville légendaire pour sa splendeur bruyante, compliquée et riche en traditions. Dans City of a Million Dreams, Jason Berry nous livre une histoire de la Nouvelle-Orléans à l'occasion de son tricentenaire. Chroniquant les cycles d'invention, de lutte, de mort et de renaissance, Berry révèle la survie de la ville comme un triomphe de la diversité, ses quartiers de la carte du monde marqués par la résilience malgré les ouragans, les épidémies, les incendies et les inondations

In the hum of a b-flat city
Bienville: journey into the interior
St. Malô in the memory rings
The great fire and procession for Carlos III
City of migrants
Claiborne: a city embattled
Pirates, black soldiers, and the war under Jackson
The builder and the priest
The burial master: times of yellow fever and war
The time of jazz
Sicilians in the meld
Mother Catherine and the lower Ninth Ward
Sister Gertrude Morgan: running for the city
The last days of Danny Barker
Dr. Michael White and the widow's wail
After the flood.

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