Groove Interrupted: Loss, Renewal, and the Music of New Orleans FREE DOWNLOAD
- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (August 2, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312552254
- ISBN-13: 978-0312552251
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.
Platinum-selling rapper Mystikal rekindles his career after six years in
prison. Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard struggles to translate Katrina
into music. The spotlight also shines on Allen Toussaint, Pete
Fountain, Gatemouth Brown, the Rebirth Brass Band, Phil Anselmo,
Juvenile, Jeremy Davenport and the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage
Festival. With heartache, hope, humor and resolve, each of these
contemporary narratives stands on its own. Together, they convey that
the funky, syncopated spirit of New Orleans music is unbreakable, in
spite of Katrina’s interruption.
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