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New Orleans- Jazz in the 1920s to 40s

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FONTS

French Quarter

  • started to emerge from 1900 onwards
  • from marching bands
  • mixture of Creole songs from African-Americans with brass band characteristics
  • 1920 swing emerged-guitar got introduced
  • dancing played an important role
  • original city centre
  • more jazz clubs for the upper class
  • jazz tourism slowly emerged

History of Jazz in New Orleans

  • located on the west coast at the Mississippi River Delta

  • approximately 160km inland from the Gulf of Mexico

  • biggest city in Louisiana

  • was an important port city for slave trade

Location

  • red light dirstrict of New Orleans
  • many bars, clubs and brothels where musicians worked
  • few cabarets where jazz was performed

Louis Armstrong

Storyville

Impacts on the city

  • Tourism
  • Emerging of real jazz-clubs
  • Creation of idols
  • Formation of a lively jazz scene
  • building of hotels and tourist-oriented commercial properties
  • gentrification of former run down areas
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