Music History

What city is the birthplace of Jazz?

New Orleans, Louisiana

Where were slaves allowed to congregate and perform traditional dances from their African homelands through most of the 19th Century?

Congo Square

Which previously established music groups became the first azz units in New Orleans?

Marching Bands

True or False…..

More African slaves were brought to North America than in Brazil, Spanish America or the Caribbean.

False

True or False….

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Because of manumission, by 1800, the number of free blacks outnumbered slaves in the American Hemisphere.

False

The St. Louis Style of ragtime that took America by storm at the turn of the century was led by what two black composer/publishers? (two answers)

a. Scott Joplin
b. W.C. Handy

What was Storyville?

A New Orleans neighborhood set aside for brothels and gambling.