Summary: This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRAKrist, Gary.
Summary: "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 KRIDr. John.
Summary: A collection of songs by and associated with Louis Armstrong.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DR.Messner, Kate
Summary: When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--and when the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESTrombone Shorty
Summary: Trombone Shorty's latest album captures the spirit and essence of the Big Easy while redefining its sound. It blazes through a mix of '70s funk, rock, hip-hop, and R&B.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TROSummary: New Orleans, 38 months after. The city's musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and others continue to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But the promise of recovery, heightened by the historic election of a new president, is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. In these five final episodes of Treme,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TREGalactic (Musical group)
Contents: Friends of science -- Boe money (feat. The Rebirth Brass Band) -- Double it (feat. Big Freedia) -- Heart of steel (feat. Irma Thomas) -- Wild man (feat. Big Chief Bo Dollis) -- Bacchus (Feat. Allen Toussaint) -- Katey vs. Nobby (feat. Katey Red and Sissy Nobby) -- Cineramascope (feat. Trombone Shorty and Corey Henry) -- Dark water (feat. John Boutte) -- Do it again (feat. Cheeky Blakk) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anti- Records 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GALFieseler, Robert W.
Summary: A reconstruction of the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans' subterranean gay community describes how the Up Stairs Lounge and dozens of innocent patrons were targeted in what became a catalyzing event in the gay liberation movement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 FIEContents: Jazz Fest: the first 50 years / by Keith Spera -- Heritage, craft, and culture / by Rachel Lyons -- Quint Davis and Jazz Fest / by Karen Celestan -- Food fête / by Rachel Lyons -- The music and musicians of the New Orleans Jazz Festival / by Robert H. Cataliotti -- Off the stage, around the grounds / by Rachel Lyons.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A poetic tribute to a lesser-known part of African-American history describes how after working relentlessly for more than six days, slaves in nineteenth-century New Orleans were permitted to congregate in Congo Square.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976 WEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WEAKoontz, Robin Michal.
Summary: Presents an accounting of Hurricane Katrina from start to finish, including rescue efforts and survivor stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What KoontzSummary: Rampant crime and government ineptitude continue to cripple the city's recovery, with outside profiteers looking to cash in on short-term gains. The series' focus is still on ordinary people, but they no longer accept their lack of influence on the institutions that have controlled the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRESummary: Features music from the first season of the HBO series Treme, the hit show about a New Orleans neighborhood of musicians, chefs, and ordinary New Orleanians who rebuild their lives, homes, and unique culture after Hurricane Katrina.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TREBridges, Ruby
Summary: "When Ruby Bridges was six years old, she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Told in the perspective of her six year old self and based on the pivotal events that happened in 1960, Ruby tells her story like never before. Embracing her name and learning that even at six years old she was able to pave the path for future generations, this is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRIPiazza, Tom
Summary: A collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in desperate times.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 PIANew Orleans Suspects (Musical group)
Contents: Get back what you given -- Cigarette smile -- Magdalena -- Pocketful of grits -- Soothe me -- Things (In your mind) -- Hoodoos and cunyans -- Carnivale -- Walk of shame -- Yo flambeaux!
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana Red Hot Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEWMoore, Stanton.
Contents: Lauren Z -- Carnival -- Driftin' -- Magnolia triangle -- Waltz for all souls -- Tchefunkta -- The chase -- Big greaze -- In the keyhole -- Paul Barbarin's second line -- Prayer.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Royal Potato Family 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MOOPreservation Hall Jazz Band
Contents: Shake it and break it (feat. Andrew Bird) (3:11) -- Between the devil & the deep blue sea (feat. Paolo Nutini) (2:42) -- Tootie Ma was a big fine thing (feat. Tom Waits) (4:18) -- Louisiana fairytale (feat. Yim Yames) (3:09) -- After you've gone (feat. Del McCoury) (3:22) -- Freight train (feat. Ani DiFranco) (3:18) -- Blue skies (feat. Pete Seeger, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger) (2:39) -- Nobody knows...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Preservation Hall Recordings 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PRESummary: "This astonishing powerful documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts-an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th ward-directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider's view of Katrina with a devastating protrait of the hurricane's aftermath. Trouble the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 363.34 TROCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TROSummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPNelson, Vaunda Micheaux
Summary: "A powerful true story about three Black girls who courageously integrated a New Orleans school on November 14, 1960, told by award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 379.2 NELGratz, Roberta Brandes
Summary: "[Katrina] completely transformed one of the most beloved cities in America, leaving nearly 80 percent of New Orleans flooded and damaging 134,000 housing units, causing unprecedented destruction. The response to Katrina is a topic of unending debate and anger ... Watching coverage of the hurricane on television in 2005 ... Roberta Brandes Gratz knew that the best chance for the city's recovery...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 GRAGoodman, John
Summary: Follows the lives of a group of New Orleans residents in the Tremé neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TREJohn
Contents: You swore (4:23) -- In the name of you (4:52) -- Food for thot (4:56) -- Holdin' pattern (4:43) -- Bruha bembe (5:23) -- Imitation of love (4:39) -- Now that you got me (3:30) -- Creole moon (8:33) -- Georgianna (3:46) -- Monkey & baboon (7:44) -- Take what I can get (3:50) -- Queen of cold (3:43) -- Litenin' (3:28) -- One 2 a.m. too many (4:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2001