Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul » (1st Edition)

Roger D. Abrahams is Hum Rosen Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author and editor of many books, including After Africa (with John F. Szwed), African Folktales: Traditional Stories of the Black World, and Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Robert Farris Thompson is Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. He is the author of Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy and Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas.

"A furious, blues-tinged, erudite hymn to our greatest vernacular city. Read it and weep; read it and rejoice!"—Edward Hirsch, President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation