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Devil sent the rain : music and writing in desperate America / Tom Piazza.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3477 .P49 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piazza, Tom, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Musical criticism.
- Musicians.
- United States.
- Musicians--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Personal narratives.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- Musical criticism--United States.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 262, 20 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper Perennial, [2011]
- Summary:
- "Whatever Tom Piazza writes is touched with magic." --Douglas Brinkley Acclaimed author Tom Piazza follows his prize-winning novel "City of Refuge" and the post-Katrina classic "Why New Orleans Matters" with a dynamic collection of essays and journalism about American music and American character, in "Devil Sent the Rain." -- "Tom Piazza's writing is filled with energy, and with tender, insightful words for the brilliant and irascible, from Jimmy Martin to Norman Mailer. Time and time again, Piazza identifies the unlikely, precious connections between recent events, art, letters, and music; through his words, these byways of popular culture provide an unexpected measure of the times." --Elvis Costello
- Contents:
- Jimmie Rodgers died for your sins
- A light went on and he sang
- The blues : a musical journey
- Sacred and profane in Clarksdale
- True adventures with the King of Bluegrass
- Jimmy Martin, RIP
- The lost man of rock and roll
- Elegy for Carl Perkins
- Trust the song
- Bob Dylan, 1997
- Leaving the farm
- Gotta serve somebody
- World gone wrong again
- Charlie Chan in New Orleans!
- Blues streak
- Going back to New Orleans
- Seer and seen : an online chat about New Orleans
- An exchange of letters about Why New Orleans matters
- Other people's houses
- Incontinental drift
- Citizen Mailer
- Norman Mailer : a remembrance
- An interview with Tom Piazza on the future of the book
- The devil and Gustave Flaubert
- Note in a bottle.
- ISBN:
- 0062008226
- 9780062008220
- OCLC:
- 703206614
- Publisher Number:
- 99946267545
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