When the Levees Broke
A Requiem in Four Acts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10015335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Doherty (0000-0002-4183-5595, Brandeis University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 997-999 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4486605 |
| OpenAlex | W2100622642 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The languid Delta rhythms of “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans” by Louis Armstrong and His Dixieland Seven ripple over a fluid montage of that city past and present, once flush, now flooded, merging newsreel clips of happier times with video of the waterlogged wreckage of what used to be a neighborhood, a home, a life. Surveyed from the air or at water level, the vista is an otherworldly, soaked-to-the-skin urban sprawl of flotsam and jetsam, a whirlpool of images punctuated by the kind of serendipitous metonymy that cannot be scripted: a street sign reading “Humanity Street” up to its neck in the swirling floodwaters. Hurricane Katrina began as a weather system and within hours of landfall morphed into a cultural bellwether, upgraded from a category 3 storm surge to a category 5 political shock wave. In hbo's When the Levees Broke, an ambitious four-hour
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cartography · Geography · Hurricane katrina · Landfall · Levee · Meteorology · Natural disaster · Porch · Sign (mathematics · Storm · Storm surge · Tinker · Visual arts · History · Music History and Culture · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |