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The recent history of New Orleans is fraught with tragedy and triumph. Both are reflected in the city’s vibrant, idiosyncratic music community. In Keith Spera’s intimately reported Groove Interrupted, Aaron Neville returns to New Orleans for the first time after Hurricane Katrina to bury his wife. Fats Domino improbably rambles around Manhattan to promote a post-Katrina tribute CD. Alex Chilton lives anonymously in a battered cottage in the Treme neighborhood. Plati... >Voir plus
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"Groove Interrupted" est basé sur des articles que Keith Spera a écrit pour le Times-Picayune. Chaque article a ensuite été développé pour ce recueil, retraçant le parcours de musiciens et personnages emblématiques composant la mosaïque musicale et culturelle de la Nouvelles Orléans. le fil conducteur, hormis la musique et l'amour que chacun porte à la culture musicale de la ville et de la Louisiane, est ici l'ouragan Katrina, force tantôt destructrice, fédératrice ou constructrice, parfois les trois, pour ces artistes.
Des récits touchants (je ne vous dis pas combien de fois j'ai versé ma larme face aux accidents de la vie de certains protagonistes), intrigants, toujours intéressants et une richesse incroyable transmise par la plume efficace du journaliste. Un plaisir et une mine d'infos qui vous poussera plus loin dans la recherche du bon son New Orleans! Ça n'a pas arrangé mon cas...
Des récits touchants (je ne vous dis pas combien de fois j'ai versé ma larme face aux accidents de la vie de certains protagonistes), intrigants, toujours intéressants et une richesse incroyable transmise par la plume efficace du journaliste. Un plaisir et une mine d'infos qui vous poussera plus loin dans la recherche du bon son New Orleans! Ça n'a pas arrangé mon cas...
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Randy Newman's "Louisana 1927" has long been a Jazz Fest staple. [...] In Newman's original, President Coolidge comes down in a railroad train to examine "this poor cracker's land". [John] Boutte sang, "Bush flew ovre in his airplane with six fat men with martinis in their hand/Bush said, 'Fat man, great job... look what the river has done to this poor Creole's land.'"
Afterward, a woman informed Boutte that scores of listeners had fled the tent. "I thought I had pissed somebody off, getting on my soapbox," Boutte said. "But they were running out crying. They weren't just crying--they were heaving. They were leaving to get their composure."
Afterward, a woman informed Boutte that scores of listeners had fled the tent. "I thought I had pissed somebody off, getting on my soapbox," Boutte said. "But they were running out crying. They weren't just crying--they were heaving. They were leaving to get their composure."
"The festival was strong enough to power two weekends; even Mardi Gras was relatively abbreviated, compared to what this was. They say something about what New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has become within the life and culture of New Orleans.
And it's a metaphor for what New Orleans means to America." [Quint Davis]
And it's a metaphor for what New Orleans means to America." [Quint Davis]
To [Quint] Davis, [Jazz Fest] "started out to be the world's greatest back-yard barbecue, an indigenous self-celebration by a culture. Then, at some phase, it was to promote and celebrate the culture annually, and bring it forward. Now, two or three generations later, it is a cultural institution."
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