How New Orleans music survived the big storm ‎ | Philadelphia Inquirer

The specter of Katrina also hovers over a moving new book about the city's constantly rejuvenating music scene, Groove Interrupted: Loss, Renewal and the Music of New Orleans (St. Martin's Press). Penned by Keith Spera, a New Orleans Times-Picayune writer who began chronicling the city's music long before the storm, Groove Interrupted measures Katrina's toll on individual musicians' lives and their art. Here is a look at the real, wounded people behind the fabled music - a tale told in unsparing detail of jobs gone dry, homes destroyed, lives forever shattered.

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