Getting Off at Elysian Fields Nancy Pollock Although there is still controversy

Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz

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An introduction and annotations provide historical context to this intimate examination of life in the French-Atlantic world"--Provided by publisher

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Getting Off at Elysian Fields Nancy Pollock Although there is still controversyNo city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft. These pieces in Getting Off at Elysian Fields: