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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

The Day the Music Died

This is the most compelling, vividly descriptive, emotive article I've read about post-Katrina New Orleans.


Author and critic Nik Cohn has been obsessed by New Orleans for more than 30 years, and has been involved in the rap scene there for the last five. Six months after Hurricane Katrina he revisited the city and was stunned by what he found. In this compelling despatch he describes communitites struggling to piece together their lives as they watch their city being ripped apart by politicians and planners with designs on a very different New Orleans.

The day the music died

Sunday January 15, 2006
The Observer

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