New Orleans and Jazz

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New Orleans and Jazz

• Port Cities and Culture
• Syncretism and Jazz
• Diffusion of Jazz

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Port Cities and Culture

• New Orleans birth place of jazz
• Cultural crossroads or melting pot
• New Orleans as a Culture Hearth
• Hub of a functional region (Port City)
• Cultural Influences
• European
• French, English, Spanish
• African/Caribbean
• Cajun vs. Creole (language)
• Zydeco music

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Birth of Jazz

• Jazz and its roots and influences
• Europe Cultivated Music
• ( harmony and instrumentation)
• Delta Blues-African influenced Folk Music
• rhythm/syncopation
• Appalachia Hillbilly-Anglo Celtic influenced
  Folk Music
  
• (song and melody)
• The Role of Migration

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Syncretism and Jazz

• Blues and Jazz
• 12 bar blues and call and response
• Improvisation
• Acculturation and Folk Music
• Modification of culture
• Importance of the dominant culture
• Syncretism
• Creation of a new cultural trait
• Jazz as a syncretic music
• Religion and syncretism

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Diffusion and Jazz

• Expansion vs. Relocational Diffusion
• Expansion
• Contagious
• Hierarchical
• Relocational
• Agents of Diffusion
• Jazz and the Riverboat

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Tracking the Diffusion of Jazz
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Tracking the Diffusion of Jazz
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The Hierarchical Diffusion of Jazz

• Principal Agent of Diffusion of Early Jazz
• Movement from Chicago to New York
• Traditional Hierarchical Diffusion
• Obstacles to Jazz
• NO Jazz and the Red Light District
• The Culture of Jazz
• Midwest attitudes vs. New York City
• NYC and Tin Pan Alleys reaction