NEW ORLEANS REMIX



Jack Sullivan

University Press of Mississippi

American Made Music Series

ISBN 978-1-4968-1526-2 Cloth $28

Available in October 

“Jack Sullivan can do it all. Whether writing about Victorian ghost stories, reviewing modern fiction, tracing the impact of American music on Europe, or analyzing the film scores of Alfred Hitchcock classics, this versatile scholar-critic brings to bear a deep knowledge of his subjects and a prose style of rare suppleness and grace. Yet as important as Sullivan’s earlier books have been, this loving history of music in New Orleans, packed with first-person accounts of the contemporary ‘remix’ that began in the 1990s, may be his masterpiece, an irresistible blend of research and reporting that is as entertaining as it is insightful. You will read it with delight.”

— Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning

critic and author

Jack Sullivan is an author, critic, lecturer, and professor at Rider University, where he is Chair of the English Department. He has taught literature, music, and film at Columbia, CUNY, NYU, and The New School and is the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a Columbia University Fellowship, and the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for best book of the year. He is the author of Hitchcock’s Music , New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music , The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural , Lost Souls: A Collection of English Ghost Stories , and Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood . He has written for The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Opera , The Washington Post , The Boston Globe , and The Chicago Tribune , among many others.