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The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans (2009 original; edición 2009)

por Ned Sublette

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Spending 2004?2005 in New Orleans investigating the city's legendary past both in the archives and its living culture in the street, this account combines personal memoir, historical research, and on-the-ground reporting to trace a suspenseful arc through the last year New Orleans was whole. The perspectives of daily life and the passage of seasons in the antediluvian city are darkly comic, irreverent, passionate, and angry. Fully revealing the city's vicious heritage of racism and its murderous poverty, this heartbreaking narrative of joy, violence,… (más)
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Título:The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans
Autores:Ned Sublette
Información:Lawrence Hill Books (2009), Hardcover, 496 pages
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The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans por Ned Sublette (2009)

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As a former resident and one fairly aware of the local music scene of the time, I found this book very interesting. Also, to include unsavory aspects about New Orleans without completely trashing her- I appreciated that. ( )
  laursand | Oct 15, 2023 |
Sublette writes this story from a very interesting perspective. He's a Southerner--he was born in the South, and as you'll read here he has lots and lots of vivid memories of growing up in the South in the ~1960s. But he's also very much a New Yorker--he's lived there for years and a lot of his sensibilities are formed by being a New Yorker.

He's also steeped in the music of the African diaspora to a degree well beyond the degree to which all of us have been. And music is not at all a bad vehicle to tell this story.

So Sublette's an outsider with all kinds of knowledge (and access) that makes him a very special outsider.

As the published review notes, this is a highly personal look at pre-Katrina New Orleans, but I can hardly think of a better personal view to take in. ( )
2 vota ehines | Jun 19, 2022 |
A history and personal memoir of race, the American South, and New Orleans in particular.
  Fledgist | Oct 31, 2009 |
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The Year Before the Flood narrates Sublette’s year in New Orleans, interweaving anecdotes, historical observation, a meditation on race relations, crime, and urban decay, and a breath-taking account of the city’s music, from jazz to hip-hop. Sublette foregrounds the story with his early childhood in segregated Natchitoches, Louisiana, rightly placing his account of New Orleans in the larger context of the South’s racial history. The result is a deeply personal, idiosyncratic book which contains some of the best writing about New Orleans I’ve ever read.
 
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Spending 2004?2005 in New Orleans investigating the city's legendary past both in the archives and its living culture in the street, this account combines personal memoir, historical research, and on-the-ground reporting to trace a suspenseful arc through the last year New Orleans was whole. The perspectives of daily life and the passage of seasons in the antediluvian city are darkly comic, irreverent, passionate, and angry. Fully revealing the city's vicious heritage of racism and its murderous poverty, this heartbreaking narrative of joy, violence,

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