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Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II is a book by Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose and Tad Jones. It chronicles the history of New Orleans music, primarily rhythm and blues, and its evolution post-World War II. It was first published in 1986. An expanded second edition was published in 2009.
The history of New Orleans, Louisiana traces the city's development from its founding by the French in 1718 ... Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans. Boston: Clarion Books.
The book is focused on the early 20th century in New Orleans, around the time that jazz became in vogue in the city. Much of the book is set in and around Storyville, New Orleans. A major figure detailed in the book is Thomas C. Anderson. [1] The book was named one of the top ten books of 2014 by The Washington Post [2] and Library Journal. [3]
Pelican Publishing Company is a book publisher based in Elmwood, Louisiana, with a New Orleans postal address. [1] It was acquired in 2019 by Arcadia Publishing, a leading publisher of local and regional content in the United States. [2] Pelican publishes approximately 60 titles per year and maintains a backlist of over 2,500 books. [3]
Zeitoun is a nonfiction book written by Dave Eggers and published by McSweeney's in 2009. It tells the story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the Syrian-American owner of a painting and contracting company in New Orleans, Louisiana, who chose to ride out Hurricane Katrina in his Uptown home.
He is the author of the book Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans. This book went through several popular editions from the 1960s through 1997, and has gone on to be widely acclaimed as a great chronicling of the history of New Orleans through the naming of its streets.
Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s is a 2012 book by John Shelton Reed, published by Louisiana State University Press. The book explains how New Orleans fostered Bohemianism in that time period. [1]
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, (ISBN 9781556527302) was published in 2008 by Lawrence Hill Books. [6] The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans (ISBN 9781556528248) published in 2009 by Lawrence Hill Books continues the history of New Orleans cultures and music.
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