| New Orleans jazz derived from…? |
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| marching bands and dance music and transformed them into collective improv |
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| behind French Quarter, place for free blacks to dance and play music on sundays |
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‘drop of black blood’ makes you black; mixed race blacks = creoles of color; evolved into social group
-had some social freedcoms, owned property -spoke french, english, catholic, education, worked trades (cigar making, cobbling, carpentry) |
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| End of Creoles of color priviledges? |
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| after Civil War during Reconstruction pd, strict race lines; Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, enforced rigid color line |
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| Creoles v. Uptown Negroes |
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| Creoles wanted to distinguish themselves, but Jim C. laws integrated the 2, Creoles felt Uptowners “faked” performances b/c they ddnt read music |
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| consists of brass band societies known as FRONT LINE |
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| What is most distinctive feature of N.O.jazz? |
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| What forms does N.O. jazz use? |
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| multistrain forms of ragtime- not simple repetitive structures completely |
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| jazz leaves New Orleans, former slaves drift away from agricultural cities like N.O. moving further north to ghettos in Chicago & N.Y. |
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| Original Dixieland Jazz Band; 5 or 7 members; (p90-91) |
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| sharp (detached) chords with collective improv |
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| rag following march/ragtime structures of several disparate strains; slang for the complicated chromatic (moving my half step) lines |
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