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Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression

Dale Maharidge

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780520262478

Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012

DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520262478.001.0001

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New Orleans Jazz

New Orleans Jazz

Chapter:
19 New Orleans Jazz
Source:
Someplace Like America
Author(s):

Dale Maharidge

Publisher:
University of California Press
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520262478.003.0021

This chapter starts by describing Little Richard singing John Anderson's “Annie Is Back,” blasting from the speakers of the UNITY van. Mike Miller was sitting in the front of the car. Shamus Rohn gunned them up the sky-reaching steel truss arc of the U.S. 90 bridge over the Mississippi River. A dizzying panorama of the Crescent City: for a moment it felt as if they were about to soar over all that lay beyond and around the skyscrapers, the 70,000 secret nooks where squatters dwell. The WWOZ radio station provided theme jazz music for this twelve-hour day and night. It was America with the lid ripped off. Dale Maharidge had to see more of what was inside. He had to see the squatter's night. The New Orleans night was lit by strobing flashes of blue light.

Keywords:   Mike Miller, Shamus Rohn, Crescent City, squatters, WWOZ, jazz, music, America, Dale Maharidge, New Orleans

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