City of a million dreams a history of New Orleans at year 300 / Jason Berry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Jason, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Orleans (La.)--History.

New Orleans (La.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Summary:

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 splendour. 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 neighbourhoods marked by resilience despite hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and floods.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908570-7-1

1-4696-4715-X

1-4696-4716-8

OCLC:

1054642261