The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival


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SUPERANNO The first full history of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, with over 400 photographs, many in full color. Includes quotes from musicians with a listing of bands and the times and stages on which they performed. The colorful history of WWOZ-radio, chapters on the bountiful food and crafts heritage, and how the posters, and T-shirt




New Orleans Jazz Fest


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An extraordinary documentation through photographs of the evolution of this yearly festival that in New Orleans has become a seasonal ritual comparable only to the revelry of Mardi Gras. Photographs.










Jazz Fest Memories


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Happy Jazzfest


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Happy JazzFest


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A rhythmic tribute to the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.




Economy Hall


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"Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood tells the story of the Sociâetâe d'Economie et d'Assistance Mutuelle, a New Orleans mutual aid society founded by free men of color in 1836. The group was one of the most important multiethnic, intellectual communities in the US South: educators, world-traveling merchants, soldiers, tradesmen, and poets who rejected racism and colorism to fight for suffrage and education rights for all. The author drew on the meeting minutes of the Sociâetâe d'Economie as well as census and civil records, newspapers, and numerous archival sources to write a narrative stretching from the Haitian Revolution through the early jazz age"--