How the rise of jazz in New Orleans blended cultures
The rise of jazz in New Orleans was the emergence of a music genre that originated in African-American communities. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation.
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By the 18th century, enslaved people in the New Orleans area gathered socially at a special market later known as Congo Square, famous for its African dances. Jazz developed from many forms of music, including African rhythmic rituals and European harmony, bringing African and European musical traditions together. Papa Jack Laine, who ran the Reliance band in New Orleans in the 1910s, was called "the father of white jazz". The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, whose members were white, were the first jazz group to record.
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Jazz in New Orleans was created over time, not on a particular day. It emerged from a meeting, mixing, and melding of many cultures, emotions, and skills.
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Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje uses a fragmented, "syncopated" structure, with episodes extending in elongated "riffs" before lurching into apparently unrelated scenes; this structure also conveys Bolden's fragmenting personality as his schizophrenia takes hold.
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