| Basin Street Contributor(s): Cajun, Andre (Author), Zamb (Illustrator), Hahn, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 145561839X ISBN-13: 9781455618392 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 976.335 |
| LCCN: 2014469096 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6" W x 9" (0.30 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this spicy text, author Andr' Cajun, the "Sage of the Bayou," captures the scandalous past of New Orleans' infamous Basin Street. Particularly focusing on the harlots and corrupt police force of the area, the book includes notes on the street's location, history, and cultural impact, including its important influence on music. Complete with illustrations from the artist Zamb, this is a reprint of the original book published in the 1950s. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zamb: - Wiley S. Churchill (1900-1987), who produced art under the pseudonym Zamb, was a prominent artist and frequent exhibitor with the New Orleans Art League. He illustrated several books about New Orleans. His paintings and pen and ink drawings were widely collected in the mid-twentieth century and are still prized today for their depiction of the New Orleans region.Hahn, Roger: - Roger Hahn is an accomplished, versatile, and respected New Orleans journalist. For more than four decades his work has been featured by such organizations as NPR Jazz Online, Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine, Songlines, and KnowLA. Born in New York City, he studied and worked across the country before settling in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, he used his skills as a writer and photographer to help organizations apply for post-disaster grants and documented the recovery efforts. Cajun, Andre: - André Cajun (1893-1957), born Andrew Jackson Navard in Lake Charles, published several tourist booklets that he hawked, along with his entertaining stories, as a lecturer on the steamer The President. He is also the author of Stories of New Orleans published by Pelican with a new foreword by John T. Magill, Curator/Historian for The Historic New Orleans Collection. |