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Gottschalk, Le Bananier

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was a New Orleans-born composer of Creole heritage. Here’s how the Wikipedia entry of his biography begins: He had six brothers and sisters, five of whom were half-siblings by his father’s biracial mistress.[2] His family lived for a time in a tiny cottage at Royal and […]

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“Do You Know what It Means to Miss New Orleans?” written by Eddie DeLange and Louis Alter from the 1947 film New Orleans, which was directed by Arthur Lubin, who had earlier directed a number of popular films starring the comic team of Abbot and Costello and then in 1943  the remake of Phantom of the […]

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Art & Identity Playlist

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