The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo SquareChicago Review Press, 1 ene 2008 - 368 páginas STRONGNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. STRONGWinner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.STRONG STRONGAwarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance.
The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti. It demonstrates that New Orleans already had its own distinct personality at the time of Louisiana's statehood in 1812. By then, important roots of American music were firmly planted in its urban swamp--especially in the dances at Congo Square, where enslaved Africans and African Americans appeared en masse on Sundays to, as an 1819 visitor to the city put it, &“rock the city.&”
This book is a logical continuation of Ned Sublette's previous volume, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, which was highly praised for its synthesis of musical, cultural, and political history. Just as that book has become a standard resource on Cuba, so too will The World That Made New Orleans long remain essential for understanding the beautiful and tragic story of this most American of cities. |
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... practice, from 1769 to 1803. But this last third of the eigh- teenth century was a time of great change, encompassing the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. During this time, New Orleans began to be a port of importance ...
... practice, in 1497, when it established the silver peso (a word meaning weight), worth eight reales (royals), giving rise to the term “pieces of eight.” Spain's urgent concern in the Americas was to rip out gold as fast as possible. At ...
... practiced their religion in private homes). Ecstatic Protestant congregational singing would subsequently be carried over to the Anglo-American New World, where it was taken up by Afri- can Americans, whose music is so strongly marked ...
... practiced in public.” The rest of the code dealt with such issues as the conditions under which slaves might be set ... practice, the Code Noir was widely disregarded as soon as it was promulgated, and slave owners did what they wanted ...
... practice diplomacy with the indigenous people. The absurdity of colonial commerce was such that the two neighboring posts were not allowed to trade with each other. Today, Natchitoches is a small, pretty college town. With its brick ...
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