Please join us Wednesday, September 21st at 2:00 PM CDT (3:00 PM EDT) for a live virtual discussion and Q&A featuring Robert H. Cataliotti and his new book, Drumsville!: The Evolution of the New Orleans Beat on the LSU Press Facebook page.
A live video feed of this event will appear in the discussion thread on the Facebook Event page on Wednesday, September 21st at 2:00 PM CDT. If you select "going," on the Facebook Event page you will get a notification once the video has started. The presentation will take place from 2–2:30 pm, followed by a 10-minute Q&A.
Order copies of Drumsville! here.
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Drumsville! The Evolution of the New Orleans Beat traces the history of drums and drumming in the Crescent City, exploring more than three centuries of the instrument and the art form that transformed New Orleans into the musical powerhouse it is today. Created as a companion to the New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibit of the same name, Drumsville! examines the drummer’s role in the evolution of brass bands, Black masking Indians, traditional and modern jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and funk.
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The LSU Press Remote Author Series brings the talented writers of LSU Press to your home. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 2pm CDT on their Facebook page, they will broadcast a different LSU Press writer reading from their book and talking about their inspiration and craft. Post on the event page, or tweet @lsupress, with questions for your favorite LSU Press author.
See recordings of previous readings in this series on the LSU Press YouTube channel.
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Robert H. Cataliotti is a music critic and historian who teaches at Coppin State University in Baltimore. A contributing writer for Living Blues magazine, he has also published two books, The Music in African American Fiction and The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970–2005. He is the producer and annotator of Classic Sounds of New Orleans from Smithsonian Folkways (2010).
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This book also includes a foreword by Herlin Riley, a preeminent drummer on the contemporary New Orleans music scene. He has released four albums: Watch What You’re Doing (2000), Cream of the Crescent (2005), New Direction (2016), and Perpetual Optimism (2019). Riley is the coauthor of New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming and is adjunct drum instructor at the University of New Orleans, Northwestern University, and The Juilliard School.