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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries New Orleans was regarded as…
New Orleans is a city of parades, most famously the Mardi…
Rockabilly music is a seminal, first-generation rock-and-roll style distinguished by extreme…
Gospel music is a broad term for Christian religious music - much of which has…
The blues is a basic bedrock source of American indigenous music. For over a century…
Bounce is an intensely local and popular form of indigenous street music in New Orleans…
In the 19th century, brass band music became a national craze. Virtually every small town…
The Cajun music of southwestern Louisiana and east Texas shines as one of America's most…
The Calinda was a voodoo dance brought to Louisiana from San Domingo and the Antilles…
From the late 17th century on, Louisiana has enthusiastically supported both the performance and teaching…
Country music encompasses an extremely wide range of material created over a broad span of…
Dixieland, which was developed in New Orleans, is one of the earliest styles of Jazz…
Few words conjure as many meanings and ideas as the word funk. It is a…
Intro to American Hiphop By Region: East Coast The West African and African American oral…
Traditional New Orleans jazz began to emerge in the city circa 1885 - 1890, although…
New Orleans is a city of parades, most famously the Mardi Gras processions that roll…
The Mardi Gras Indians are African-American men who form groups known as tribes. On some…
With strong drums, heavy guitar and bass, light piano, light horn sound and a strong…
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries New Orleans was regarded as a leading American center…
Although rap, hip-hop and bounce are often regarded as contemporary/cutting-edge music, they are all firmly…
Louisiana has been home to locally-based record companies since the 1890s, but the most significant…
Rhythm & blues - also known as R&B - is an African-American commercial music genre…
"Rock music" is an umbrella term that covers a wide range of styles created since…
Rockabilly music is a seminal, first-generation rock-and-roll style distinguished by extreme rhythmic drive and a…
The a capella genre known as shape-note singing, primarily heard in renditions of Christian religious…
Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs (SAPCs) in New Orleans are a distinctive culture that reaches…
Soul music is a genre of popular music rooted in the African-American experience. The concept…
Swamp pop is a hybrid of rock, pop, blues and rhythm & blues performed by…
Zydeco (pronounced ZY-duh-coe) is the exuberant dance music of Creoles in southwest Louisiana. It is…