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Title: Storyville, New Orleans, Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District by Al Rose ISBN: 0-8173-4403-9 Publisher: University of Alabama Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1974 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Glorious view of that famous seamy underbelly.
Comment: Thoroughly engaging and readable, this history of prostitution in New Orleans is almost enough to make me happy I'm still living in a city with as richly a bizarre past as this.
Definitely not the sanitized soft-focus Hollywood version of brothels and the women who ran and worked in them. Biographies within are of vicious, insane, wonderfully horrible creatures who fascinate the reader even while gouging each other's eyes out and savagely beating each other to death with their own prosthetic limbs. To me, this is the spirit of New Orleans; blood, depravity, and all the bad craziness a night in the tenderloin can conjure.
Rating: 5
Summary: 14 years in the making
Comment: Al Rose was a mentor and great friend to me. He died in New Orleans about two years ago and was given a jazz funeral. He researched Storyville for 14 years. Many of the records had intentionally been destroyed. At the time he began the research he was living in Hollywood, Fl and wanted to paint a mural and map of Storyville on a wall in his home. He was a wonderful artist as well as writer. When he went to find a good map of Storyville and more details he discovered that the records of ownership of the well known houses of prostitution had been razored out of the official deed books. Intrigued by this he went on and on and the result was Storyville. He was a renaissance man: artist, writer, jazz impressario, labor organizer. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and worked with the Quakers to smuggle social democratic leaders out of eastern europe after the soviets took over. He studied under Diego Rivera, knew Trotsky, was a friend and confidant of every great jazz musician of the 20th Century and befriended all of them. I sat in his living room one night while Eubie Blake played the piano. Al wrote his biography and knew him for 50 years. He produced jazz records for the State of Louisina, still much in demand by collectors. The records bear the legend, "recorded under the personal supervision of Al Rose." His real name was much longer---he was from a very old New Orleans family and actually has to take fencing lessons in case he had to fight a duel. he would be extremely pleased at the reviews on this site. I miss him a lot.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating History Of A Unique Time And Place
Comment: If this was a fictional account about the section of New Orleans called "Storyville," no one would ever believe it. That it is true is wonderful, monstrous, fascinating, horrible, and damn good reading. The birthplace of blues, jazz, Dixieland and the beginning of the "Black take" on music that has swept the world and reinvented itself many times...right up to the present. The sex in this book and the way it was practiced and viewed at the time is unbelievable; it boggles the mind. This book cries out to be the basis for a movie, a musical, and/or a TV series. The cast of characters defies explanation. If this book doesn't blow your mind, you don't have one. Great!
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Title: The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld by Herbert Asbury ISBN: 1560254947 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Bellocq's Women by Peter Everett ISBN: 0099289199 Publisher: Random House (UK) Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz ISBN: 0306810123 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title:Storyville - The Naked Dance ASIN: B00004XMW7 Publisher: Shanachie Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.98 |
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Title: Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans by David Fulmer ISBN: 0156027283 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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