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Download or read book Storyville written by Lois Battle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city renowned for sin, seduction, and sex, comes a tale of two women inextricably linked by "The District" of Storyville, where prostitution was legal—and flourishing. Kate—young, beautiful, and abandoned by a man who doesn't love her—finds herself thrown on the mercies of the city. Julia Randsome is a transplanted Yankee, a supporter of women's rights, who against everyone's advice marries into one of the city's most prominent families. Though they occupy different universes in New Orleans, somehow all roads bring Kate and Julia to the same place . . . back to The District. As lush and provocative as New Orleans is itself, Storyville sweeps across lines of caste and blood, money, and desire—and into the voluptuous secrets of a city tempting as any on earth. "The novel's atmosphere is redolent of honeysuckle and jasmine, café brûlot and cinnamon buns."—Newsday
Book Synopsis Storyville, New Orleans, Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-light District by : Al Rose
Download or read book Storyville, New Orleans, Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-light District written by Al Rose and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon interviews and research, the author investigates New Orleans' experiment with legalized prostitution between 1897 and 1917.
Book Synopsis Storyville!: An Illustrated Guide to Writing Fiction by : John Dufresne
Download or read book Storyville!: An Illustrated Guide to Writing Fiction written by John Dufresne and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart and funny guide to writing fiction, with engaging infographics that bring storytelling techniques to life. Whether you are daunted by a blinking cursor or frustrated trying to get the people in your head onto the page, writing stories can be intimidating. It takes passion, tenacity, patience, and a knowledge of?and faith in?the often-digressive writing process. A do-it-yourself manual for the apprentice fiction writer, Storyville! demystifies that process; its bold graphics take you inside the writer’s comfortingly chaotic mind and show you how stories are made. In Storyville!, seasoned guide John Dufresne?whose approach “will anchor the newbie and entertain the veteran” (San Francisco Chronicle)?provides practical insight into the building blocks of fiction, including how to make the reader see your characters, create a suspenseful plot, and revise, revise, revise. Storyville! is a combination handbook and notebook, with original prompts and exercises crafted with Dufresne’s singular dry wit and Evan Wondolowski’s playful and illuminating graphics on every page.
Book Synopsis Spectacular Wickedness by : Emily Epstein Landau
Download or read book Spectacular Wickedness written by Emily Epstein Landau and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation for sin and sexual excess. This notorious neighborhood, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflected the cultural milieu and complex social structure of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city infamous for both prostitution and interracial intimacy. In particular, Lulu White—a mixed-race prostitute and madam—created an image of herself and marketed it profitably to sell sex with light-skinned women to white men of means. In Spectacular Wickedness, Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district within the cultural context of developing racial, sexual, and gender ideologies and practices. Storyville's founding was envisioned as a reform measure, an effort by the city's business elite to curb and contain prostitution—namely, to segregate it. In 1890, the Louisiana legislature passed the Separate Car Act, which, when challenged by New Orleans's Creoles of color, led to the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896, constitutionally sanctioning the enactment of "separate but equal" laws. The concurrent partitioning of both prostitutes and blacks worked only to reinforce Storyville's libidinous license and turned sex across the color line into a more lucrative commodity. By looking at prostitution through the lens of patriarchy and demonstrating how gendered racial ideologies proved crucial to the remaking of southern society in the aftermath of the Civil War, Landau reveals how Storyville's salacious and eccentric subculture played a significant role in the way New Orleans constructed itself during the New South era.
Book Synopsis Guidebooks to Sin by : Pamela D. Arceneaux
Download or read book Guidebooks to Sin written by Pamela D. Arceneaux and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between 1897 and 1917, a legal red-light district thrived at the edge of the French Quarter, helping establish the notorious reputation that adheres to New Orleans today. Though many scholars have written about Storyville, no thorough contemporary study of the blue books?directories of the neighborhood?s prostitutes, featuring advertisements for liquor, brothels, and venereal disease cures?has been available until now. Pamela D. Arceneaux?s examination of these rare guides invites readers into a version of Storyville created by its own entrepreneurs. A foreword by the historian Emily Epstein Landau places the blue books in the context of their time, concurrent with the rise of American consumer culture and modern advertising. Illustrated with hundreds of facsimile pages from the blue books in The Historic New Orleans Collection?s holdings, Guidebooks to Sin illuminates the intersection of race, commerce, and sex in this essential chapter of New Orleans history" --from the publisher.
Book Synopsis Josie Arlington’s Storyville: The Life and Times of a New Orleans Madam by : Marita Woywod Crandle
Download or read book Josie Arlington’s Storyville: The Life and Times of a New Orleans Madam written by Marita Woywod Crandle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At a time when women were denied opportunity, the lavish parlors of Storyville offered advancement for women who welcomed the vice. Mary Deubler, the Storyville madam who called herself Josie Arlington, more than welcomed carnal enterprise ... Her palace, the brothel she named the Arlington, cemented her legacy. An establishment filled with exotic girls who added a rare air of refinement to its proffered debauchery, it allowed Josie to become something even rarer for her time: a self-made woman of vast wealth and influence. Author Marita Woywod Crandle charts Josie's rise while painting a ... picture of New Orleans's red-light district"--Back cover.
Download or read book Storyville, USA written by Dale Peterson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having crossed the continent with his two children, visiting more than sixty towns in the process, the author shares his cross-country travel adventures in a unique chronicle of small-town America, its down-home citizenry, and its quirky history. Reprint.
Download or read book Storyville written by Brooke Bergan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville by : Danny Barker
Download or read book Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville written by Danny Barker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Barker's memoirs, A Life in Jazz, followed him from New Orleans into the big bands of Cab Calloway and Benny Carter. He was working on this-the second volume-for some years before his death in 1994. Beginning with an extended portrait of Buddy Bolden as recalled by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton and Bunk Johnson as well as Barker himself, this book draws together a lifetime of stories and the vivid characters who populated "Storyville."Danny Barker (1909-1994) sang and played the guitar and banjo on over 1,000 jazz, swing, blues, and bebop records. He is a member of the Jazz Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Music Master Award. Alyn Shipton is a writer and broadcaster on jazz. He is the editor of A Life in Jazz, the first volume of Danny Barker's memoirs.
Book Synopsis Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill by : Lanie Robertson
Download or read book Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill written by Lanie Robertson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deals with one of the last appearances of Billie Holiday." -- p.7 | May include musicians.
Download or read book Storeyville written by Frank Santoro and published by Picturebox, Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will, a young man stuck in the industrial Pittsburgh of way-back-when is rarin' to go--even if he's not sure exactly where to--until he learns that his former mentor/partner/best-friend, The Reverend Rudy, has been sighted in Montreal, and then he's off! Will's adventure leads across exotic lands and to an epiphany about life itself"--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Bellocq written by E. J. Bellocq and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded and revised edition of the famous book of portraits of prostitutes in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, the inspiration for the Louis Malle film Pretty Baby. This new edition includes 52 tritone photos printed in a large format. The text from the original edition--by John Szarjowski, former director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art--is reprinted here, along with a new Introduction by Susan Sontag.
Download or read book Club Storyville written by Riley LaShea and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth has been raised in propriety, and in 1944 Richmond there are things a lady simply doesn't do. Her grandmother Mary - Nan to those close to her - does them all. She drinks what she wants, speaks when she wants, and doesn't hesitate to help a colored boy on the street with no concern for who might see. When Nan gets sick and needs full-time care, she invites Yankee nurse Ariel Brandt into their lives. Smart, funny and beautiful, Ariel is a lot like Nan in a lot of ways, and Elizabeth is drawn to her at once. As her feelings for Ariel grow out of her control, Elizabeth finds herself torn between her own desires and the deeply-ingrained rules of the society in which she lives. Her brother at war, a new suitor trying to court her, and Ariel keeping a safe distance, Elizabeth is charged with an errand. Nan wants her to travel to New Orleans to find someone she once knew and pass along a wooden box that holds an important letter. Can the unexpected journey into Nan's past help Elizabeth find her future?
Download or read book Storyville written by Mildred Kayden and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A musical set in New Orleans, 1917, a story of love and jazz music. It follows how a notorious prize fight sent the musicians, bands and entertainers "rollin' up the river" to St. Louis, Chicago and gave America's gift to the world: JAZZ! -- Publisher's website.
Download or read book Poetry 1900-2000 written by Meic Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poetry 1900-2000" brings together a vibrant expression of the industrial, pastoral, rural, urban, religeous, political and linguistic experience of Wales in the twentieth-century world. The poetry collected here is as varied as Wales itself, and ranges from the well-known to the startling, from the lyrical to the experimental, the celebration of tradition to that of protest. Each poet's biography situates the writer in a social and literary context, and the collection presents an unparalleled panorama of the development of Welsh poetry in English in the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis The Ripper of Storyville, and Other Ben Snow Tales by : Edward D. Hoch
Download or read book The Ripper of Storyville, and Other Ben Snow Tales written by Edward D. Hoch and published by Crippen & Landru Pub. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of stories by one of the most prolific mystery short story writers. Includes Ben Snow tales.
Book Synopsis Chasing the Devil's Tail by : David Fulmer
Download or read book Chasing the Devil's Tail written by David Fulmer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storyville, 1907: In this raucous, bloody, red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an amber river, there's a killer loose. Someone is murdering Storyville prostitutes and marking each killing with a black rose. As Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to unravel the murder against this extraordinary backdrop, he encounters a cast of characters drawn from history: Tom Anderson, the political boss who runs Storyville like a private kingdom; Lulu White, the district's most notorious madam; a young piano player who would come to be known as Jelly Roll Morton; and finally, Buddy Bolden, the man who all but invented jazz and is now losing his mind. No ordinary mystery, Chasing the Devil's Tail is a chilling portrait of musical genius and self-destruction, set at the very moment when jazz was born.
