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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... a complex Afro-Louisianan culture already in existence. By the time. 1. Louisiana became the eighteenth state in 1812, most of the. n sabbath evening,” wrote a visitor to New Orleans in 1819, “the The Gift of the River. 3 1 Rock the City.
... wrote, “without having heard a word about it before, must perceive, if he has only common powers of observation, that [it] is an acquired country, the gift of the river.”7 Lower Louisiana is a “gift of the river.” Built up out of the ...
... wrote Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz, a Dutchman who arrived in the colony at the age of twenty-three in 1718 and remained there until 1734.4 His memoir, published in French in 1758, is an incomparable source of information about ...
... wrote Le Page du Pratz).6 When these first French-speaking colonists arrived, there were already free blacks in the area. Iberville learned from a native informant of the exis- tence of a community of black Spanish-speaking cimarrones ...
... [wrote Saint-Simon], but gradu- ally he grew more dilatory, then uncertain, or positively late, according to the time when he had gone to bed. At two or two-thirty in the after- noon all might come to see him drink chocolate, and he ...
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