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"Drumsville! The Evolution of the New Orlean Beat traces the history of drums and drumming in New Orleans, tracing more than three centuries of drumming history that shaped the city into the musical powerhouse it is today. Created as a companion to the New Orleans Jazz Museum Exhibit of the same name, Drumsville! begins its story with the Native nations of Louisiana and moves through the arrival of European colonists and enslaved Africans bringing their cultures to New Orleans. The rich array of cultures that created the Crescent City are central to this visually stunning narrative, which traces the drummer's role in the evolution of brass bands, Black masking Indians, traditional and modern jazz, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and funk. The drum set is so central to our conception of music that its origins are rarely questioned. But like all instruments, the drum set had to be invented, and New Orleans musicians-many of whom got their start by improvising and tinkering with everyday materials to create a beat-were central in its development. Drumsville! pays tribute to many of the musicians who have been important in developing the drum set and in the transmission of iconic rhythms, particularly the city's signature Second Line groove. Each section of the book draws its visuals from the historic photos, graphics, and photos of the percussion equipment and artifacts, while the text shares historical backgrounds, musicological analyses, and biographies of New Orleans musicians, including the many women drummers who have shaped and been shaped by the city's unique sound. Drummers interviewed for this book include Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste, Alfred "Uganda" Roberts, Willie Green, Adonis Rose, Ricky Sebastian, Johnny Vidacovich, Shannon Powell, Stanton Moore, Joe Lastie, Christie Jourdain, Joe Dyson, and Herlin Riley. Seamlessly weaving together stories of New Orleans drumming culture over the centuries, Drumsville! is a landmark study of the influence and contributions of New Orleans' unique drumming style to the musical world"--

"In the twenty-first century, precious little has been written about America's first professional author, Washington Irving, who was one of the most well-known and highly esteemed writers of the nineteenth century. Rip Van Winkle's Republic marks a rediscovery and reassessment of this marvelous author of social satire and fabled tales of the past. It evaluates Irving's mind, his unique take on the human condition, and the new understandings of early US culture afforded by renewed study of his large body of work, with special attention to his international bestseller The Sketch Book (1819-1820), the collection of tales that included the immortal "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Edited by two eminent historians of early America, Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Rip Van Winkle's Republic approaches the author and his times from a variety of angles. The book is, first of all, interdisciplinary in character, its contributors a mix of professional historians and literary scholars. The foreword, introduction, and ten original essays interweave critical thoughts on the growth of an independent American idiom along with the growth of American literature in a transatlantic market; the place of the American Revolution and treatment of indigenous Americans and African Americans in nineteenth-century literature; and the fragility of memory and construction of historical memory more broadly. As a bibliophile and, definitively, an antiquarian, or lover of the archive, Irving belongs in discussions of book culture. This volume also emphasizes Irving as a prominent figure in an age of literary celebrity. More than one of the contributors examine his place in the history of American theater and in film and television adaptations of his work. Finally, given his iconic status throughout America's first 100 years as a nation, Rip Van Winkle's Republic queries his curious disappearance from the literary canon over the past half-century"--

"Kelby Ouchley's "Bayou D'Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist's Memoir of Place" is an environmental history of Bayou D'Arbonne in northeast Louisiana. Ouchley grew up near the swamp and has deep familial roots in the area. He later spent much of his professional life as a wildlife biologist and naturalist, overseeing a wildlife refuge superimposed on most of Bayou D'Arbonne. His work addresses the vibrant natural history of the bayou and its cultural and social history. The result is a kaleidoscopic view of the place that reveals its unique history and distinctive flora, fauna, and people. In addition, Ouchley addresses the enormous changes that have occurred in the bayou over the last century, including the array of reasons behind the vast transformations. One of his main goals is to foster an awareness of the environmental impact of human decisions that encourages readers to consider ecological choices in their daily lives. While Ouchley's work is about a specific bayou, readers can apply the themes within his narrative to other wetlands or even prairies, mountains, and deserts. The result is a work that presents an intimate and multi-layered natural history of Bayou D'Arbonne. It is certain to appeal to a broad swath of readers interested in the environmental history of Louisiana, conservation, naturalism, and ecological change"--

"In the latter half of the nineteenth century, three violent national conflicts rocked the Americas: the Wars of Unification in Argentina, the War of the Reform and French Intervention in Mexico, and the Civil War in the United States. The recovery efforts that followed reshaped the Western Hemisphere. In Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas, Evan C. Rothera uses both transnational and comparative methodologies to highlight similarities and differences among the wars and reconstructions in the US, Mexico, and Argentina. In doing so, he uncovers a new history that stresses the degree to which cooperation and collaboration, rather than antagonism and discord, characterized the relationships among the three countries. This study serves as a unique assessment of a crucial period in the history of the Americas and speaks to the perpetual battle between visions of international partnership and isolation"--

With publication of Herbert Corey's Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey's name in the annals of American war reporting. In this memoir, Corey is especially illuminating on the obstacles reporters faced in conveying the story of the Great War to Americans.

In a world of constant change and crisis, the relationship between humans and their environment has never been more vital. Louisiana Herb Journal invites readers into the world of medicinal herbs, introducing fifty herbs found in Louisiana, with details on identification, habitat, distribution, healing properties, and traditional uses.

Collects and annotates a unique and little-known body of Civil War literature: narrative sketches, accounts, and poetry by veterans who lost the use of their right arms due to wounds sustained during the conflict and who later competed in left-handed penmanship contests in 1865 and 1866.

As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word 'tacky' has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called 'tackies' who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South.

As Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco, Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for the blues. In this biography of the renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo's rural upbringing, his professional development, and his national success.

Features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin's first novel, At Fault. The essays in this volume provide multiple approaches for understanding this complex work, with particular attention to the dynamics of the post-Reconstruction era.

A groundbreaking analysis of Confederate demobilization that examines the state of mind of Confederate soldiers in the immediate aftermath of war. The book analyses the interlude between soldier and veteran, suggesting that defeat and demobilization actually reinforced Confederate identity and public memory of the war.

Melding cultural history with thoughtful readings of Willa Cather's works and discussions of opera's complex place in turn-of-the-century America, David McKay Powell's Cather and Opera offers the first book-length study of what drew the writer so powerfully and repeatedly to the art form.

Approaches American literary naturalism as a means of social criticism, exploring the powerful economic arguments and commentaries on labour struggles presented in novels by Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck.

Investigates how the times and terms of emancipation affected Blacks on each side of the US-Canada border, including their use of political agency to pit the United States and British Canada against one another for the best possible outcomes.

Collects and annotates a unique and little-known body of Civil War literature: narrative sketches, accounts, and poetry by veterans who lost the use of their right arms due to wounds sustained during the conflict and who later competed in left-handed penmanship contests in 1865 and 1866.

Generations of scholars have debated why the Union collapsed and descended into civil war in the spring of 1861. Turning this question on its head, Brian Neumann's Bloody Flag of Anarchy asks how the fragile Union held together for so long.

Charts a path to understanding how the animal world became deeply involved in the most divisive moment in American history. The contributors to this volume - scholars of animal history and Civil War historians - argue for an animal-centered narrative to complement the human-centered accounts of the war.

In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation's sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a 'new birth of freedom'. Lincoln's Unfinished Work analyses how the United States has attempted to realize - or subvert - that promise over the past century and a half.

Explores the epistemological possibilities of the 'Black world' paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its constitutive African diasporas across multiple poetic, visual, and cultural permutations.

Investigates the lives of white Unionists in three Confederate states, revealing who they were, why and how they took their Unionist stand, and what happened to them as a result.

Drawing on his adulthood in academe, Richard Katrovas's memoir in essays chronicles a quest to locate surrogate fathers among older poets and other creative writers, and reflects upon the ways in which that search has affected his role as the father to three Czech American daughters.

Reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the American South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters.

Analyses the trajectory of interracial reform at three colleges - Oberlin, New York Central, and Berea - noting its implications for the progress of racial equality in nineteenth-century America. John Frederick Bell uses case studies to interrogate how abolitionists and their successors put their principles into practice.

A new collection from North Carolina poet Joseph Bathanti, Light at the Seam is an exploration of mountaintop removal in southern Appalachian coal country. The volume illuminates and champions often invisible people residing, in a precarious moment in time, on the glorious, yet besieged, Appalachian earth.

Beads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman's trumpet. The first in a new LSU Press series exploring facets of Louisiana's iconic culture, Mardi Gras Beads delves into the history of this celebrated New Orleans artefact.