[Dixielandjazz] Re:Great Mississippi flood of 1927

[David Richoux]

I forgot to mention that after that  great disaster Memphis Minnie 
McCoy wrote "When the Levee Breaks" and there were many many other jazz 
and blues river and flood songs...

Dave Richoux

On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:45 AM, David Richoux wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> While researching for this week's show (going to be a lot of the 
> slower blues/dirge New Orleans songs) I found this book  - looks to to 
> be very interesting:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/9dpnk  RISING TIDE: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 
> 1927 AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA by John M. Barry
>
>> When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. 
>> Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by 
>> tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of 
>> people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as 
>> John M. Barry expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi 
>> Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, some calamities transform 
>> much more than the landscape.
>> While tracing the history of the nation's most destructive natural 
>> disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the 
>> flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed 
>> the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, 
>> helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting 
>> the political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing 
>> account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history, 
>> Rising Tide reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than 
>> the swollen river itself.
>
>
>
> Dave Richoux
>
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