John Szwed on "Blues for New Orleans"
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JOHN SZWED talks to Jazz Studies Online about Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul (co-authored with Roger D. Abrahams, Nick Spitzer, and Robert Farris Thompson; University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)*