French Quarter Manual
Author | : Malcolm Heard |
Publisher | : University Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans
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Author | : Malcolm Heard |
Publisher | : University Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans
Author | : Lloyd Vogt |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2020-08-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781455624669 |
Architecturally unique, New Orleans has been called the greatest outdoor museum in the world. Glimpses of history can be found in the balconies, arches, and stained-glass windows of its homes, from simple Creole cottages to suburban ranch houses. Written as a house-watchers guide, New Orleans Houses enables the layperson to estimate the date of a houses construction, within ten to fifteen years, and to place it in a historical time frame by studying its architectural details. The author discusses each building style in the context of the major events, personages, and issues of the period during which the buildings were erected. Over 100 illustrations, including drawings of existing New Orleans homes as well as composite sketches, highlight the characteristics commonly associated with certain types of homes, making New Orleans Houses as much an art book as it is a reference guide. A glossary clarifies the sometimes-confusing terminology used in discussing architecture. It also defines words peculiar to New Orleans architecture such as Creole and faubourg.
Author | : Kenaz Filan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2011-08-16 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1594777985 |
A guide to the practices, tools, and rituals of New Orleans Voodoo as well as the many cultural influences at its origins • Includes recipes for magical oils, instructions for candle workings, and directions to create gris-gris bags and Voodoo dolls to attract love, money, justice, and healing and for retribution • Explores the major figures of New Orleans Voodoo, including Marie Laveau and Dr. John • Exposes the diverse ethnic influences at the core of Voodoo, from the African Congo to Catholic immigrants from Italy, France, and Ireland One of America’s great native-born spiritual traditions, New Orleans Voodoo is a religion as complex, free-form, and beautiful as the jazz that permeates this steamy city of sin and salvation. From the French Quarter to the Algiers neighborhood, its famed vaulted cemeteries to its infamous Mardi Gras celebrations, New Orleans cannot escape its rich Voodoo tradition, which draws from a multitude of ethnic sources, including Africa, Latin America, Sicily, Ireland, France, and Native America. In The New Orleans Voodoo Handbook, initiated Vodou priest Kenaz Filan covers the practices, tools, and rituals of this system of worship as well as the many facets of its origins. Exploring the major figures of New Orleans Voodoo, such as Marie Laveau and Dr. John, as well as Creole cuisine and the wealth of musical inspiration surrounding the Mississippi Delta, Filan examines firsthand documents and historical records to uncover the truth behind many of the city’s legends and to explore the oft-discussed but little-understood practices of the root doctors, Voodoo queens, and spiritual figures of the Crescent City. Including recipes for magical oils, instructions for candle workings, methods of divination, and even directions to create gris-gris bags, mojo hands, and Voodoo dolls, Filan reveals how to call on the saints and spirits of Voodoo for love, money, retribution, justice, and healing.
Author | : Paul Chan |
Publisher | : Badlands Unlimited |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2011-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1936440040 |
Author | : Thomas Lindsley Bradford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barbara W. Sommer |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2024-07-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1538181703 |
The Oral History Manual, Fourth Edition, is a comprehensive and user-friendly book designed to take novice or experienced oral historians through the entire life cycle of creating an oral history project, from idea through planning, interviewing, caring for, and making oral history interviews accessible. It includes updated information on: evolving technology, including the use of—and challenges associated with—automated transcription apps; ethical and practical considerations related to oral history and social justice, including interviews with people experiencing trauma; and challenges associated with real-time interviews conducted in the wake of natural and human-caused disasters. It emphasizes that an oral historian’s work is not finished when the recorder is turned off, describing in detail the importance of fully processing and preserving oral histories and related materials. The book emphasizes the importance of oral history practitioners providing context for their work so researchers and others who encounter the materials in the future will understand fully the circumstances in which the oral histories were created. The Oral History Manual, Fourth Edition also provides readers background on the evolution of oral history practice and includes appendices with sample forms that oral historians will find useful as they develop their own projects.
Author | : Charles B. Hersch |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0226328694 |
Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form—jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans’s complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of musical traditions from diverse ethnic sources. These encounters with other music and races subverted their own racial identities and changed the way they played—a musical miscegenation that, in the shadow of Jim Crow, undermined the pursuit of racial purity and indelibly transformed American culture. “More than timely . . . Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune
Author | : Stanislaus Vincent Henkels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John W. Blassingame |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226057097 |
Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city’s black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame’s groundbreaking history offers a unique look at the economic and social life of black people in New Orleans during Reconstruction. Not a conventional political treatment, Blassingame’s history instead emphasizes the educational, religious, cultural, and economic activities of African Americans during the late nineteenth century. “Blending historical and sociological perspectives, and drawing with skill and imagination upon a variety of sources, [Blassingame] offers fresh insights into an oft-studied period of Southern history. . . . In both time and place the author has chosen an extraordinarily revealing vantage point from which to view his subject. ”—Neil R. McMillen, American Historical Review
Author | : William Glenn Robertson |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2014-12-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160925436 |
Discusses how to plan a staff ride of a battlefield, such as a Civil War battlefield, as part of military training. This brochure demonstrates how a staff ride can be made available to military leaders throughout the Army, not just those in the formal education system.