The Year Before the Flood

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The Year Before the Flood is written by Ned Sublette and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1613736746 (ISBN 10) and 9781613736746 (ISBN 13).

In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The World That Made New Orleans, Subletteαs award-winning history of the Crescent Cityαs colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 200412005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and polemical, The Year Before the Flood juxtaposes the cityαs crowded calendar of parties, festivals, and parades with the murderousness of its poverty and its legacy of racism. Along the way, Sublette opens up windows of American history that illuminate the present: the trajectory of Mardi Gras from pre1Civil War days, the falsification of Southern history in movies, the cityαs importance to early rock and roll, the complicated story of its housing projects, the uniqueness of its hip-hop scene, and the celebratory magnificence of the participatory parades known as second lines. With a grand, unforgettable cast of musicians and barkeeps, scholars and thugs, vibrating with the sheer excitement of New Orleans, The Year Before the Flood is an affirmation of the power of the cityαs culture and a heartbreaking tale of loss that definitively establishes Ned Sublette as a great American writer for the 21st century. --from book jacket.