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Music and Writing in Desperate America (P.S.)
Harper Perennial
September 2011
On Sale: August 23, 2011
304 pages
ISBN: 0062008226
EAN: 9780062008220
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Tom Piazza’s sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel
this new collection of writings on music, literature, New
Orleans, and America itself in desperate times. For his first book since his award-winning novel City of
Refuge and his stunning and influential post-Katrina polemic
Why New Orleans Matters, Piazza selects the best of his
writings on American roots music and musicians, including
his Grammy-winning album notes for Martin Scorsese Presents:
The Blues; his classic profile of bluegrass legend Jimmy
Martin; essays on Jimmie Rodgers, Charley Patton, and Bob
Dylan; and much more. In the book’s second section, Piazza turns his attention to
literature, politics, and post-Katrina America in articles
and essays on subjects ranging from Charlie Chan movies to
the life and work of Norman Mailer, from the New Orleans
housing crisis to the BP oil spill, from Jelly Roll Morton’s
Library of Congress recordings to the future of books. The
third and final section delivers a startlingly original
meditation on fiction, sentimentality, and cynicism—a major
new essay from this brilliant, unpredictable, and absolutely
necessary writer.
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