- Title Pages
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- Dedication
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- Foreword Bruce Springsteen
- Someplace Like America an Introduction
- Snapshots from the Road 2009
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Part 1 America Begins a Thirty-Year Journey to Nowhere The 1980s -
1 On Becoming a Hobo -
2 Necropolis -
3 New Timer -
4 Home Sweet Tent -
5 True Bottom -
Part 2 The Journey Continues the 1990s -
6 Inspiration: The Two-Way Highway -
7 Waiting for an Explosion -
8 When Bruce Met Jenny -
Part 3 A Nation Grows Hungrier2000 -
9 Hunger in the Homes -
10 The Working Poor: Maggie and Others in Austin -
11 Mr. Murray on Maggie -
Part 4 Updating People and PlacesThe Late 2000s -
12 Reinduction -
13 Necropolis: After the Apocalypse -
14 New Timer: Finding Mr. Heisenberg Instead -
15 Home SweetTent Home -
16 Maggie: “Am I Doing the Right Thing?” -
17 Maggie on Mr. Murray -
Part 5 America with the Lid Ripped Off the Late 2000s -
18 Search and Rescue -
19 New Orleans Jazz -
20 Scapegoats in the Sun -
21 The Dark Experiment -
22 The Big Boys -
23 Anger in Suburban New Jersey -
Part 6 Rebuilding Ourselves, Then Taking America on a Journey to Somewhere New -
24 Zen in a Crippled New Hampshire Mill Town -
25 A Woman of the Soil in Kansas City -
26 The Phoenix? -
27 Looking Forward—and Back - Coda
New Orleans Jazz
New Orleans Jazz
- Chapter:
- 19 New Orleans Jazz
- Source:
- Someplace Like America
- Author(s):
Dale Maharidge
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
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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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Foreword Bruce Springsteen
- Someplace Like America an Introduction
- Snapshots from the Road 2009
-
Part 1 America Begins a Thirty-Year Journey to Nowhere The 1980s -
1 On Becoming a Hobo -
2 Necropolis -
3 New Timer -
4 Home Sweet Tent -
5 True Bottom -
Part 2 The Journey Continues the 1990s -
6 Inspiration: The Two-Way Highway -
7 Waiting for an Explosion -
8 When Bruce Met Jenny -
Part 3 A Nation Grows Hungrier2000 -
9 Hunger in the Homes -
10 The Working Poor: Maggie and Others in Austin -
11 Mr. Murray on Maggie -
Part 4 Updating People and PlacesThe Late 2000s -
12 Reinduction -
13 Necropolis: After the Apocalypse -
14 New Timer: Finding Mr. Heisenberg Instead -
15 Home SweetTent Home -
16 Maggie: “Am I Doing the Right Thing?” -
17 Maggie on Mr. Murray -
Part 5 America with the Lid Ripped Off the Late 2000s -
18 Search and Rescue -
19 New Orleans Jazz -
20 Scapegoats in the Sun -
21 The Dark Experiment -
22 The Big Boys -
23 Anger in Suburban New Jersey -
Part 6 Rebuilding Ourselves, Then Taking America on a Journey to Somewhere New -
24 Zen in a Crippled New Hampshire Mill Town -
25 A Woman of the Soil in Kansas City -
26 The Phoenix? -
27 Looking Forward—and Back - Coda