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CMA New Orleans Excursion 2001
~In the fall of 2001, a group of CMA students learned about the history and cultures of New Orleans and spent a week in Louisiana. Each student chose to do a specific topic and create a website on it. My topic was New Orleans Music. With the wide diversity of cultures, religion, and race; many styles of music where formed and brought into this melting pot. The most well known that most people think if is jazz. But there is also cajun, and zydeco and many other styles of music. I hope that when you take a tour of my site that you will see the rich culture and talent that New Orleans has had and still has to offer. |
Jazz...the sound that put New Orleans on the map, musically speaking!! It's a distinctive sound--not big band swing, with horns creating harmony. Nor is it modern jazz or "bebop," the post World War II style that relies on speeding tempos and virtuosic soloing. And it's not "pop" music, the form of music from the pre-rock 'n roll days. |
New Orleans jazz is a style of music. Almost any song can be "jazzed" up with a New Orleans beat. Jazz is music for dancing, not listening, even though that is what modern jazz became in the 1950s and beyond. New Orleans Jazz has a swinging, stomping, syncopated beat that makes you want to dance! It also has a simple melodic quality that sounds dated to some today. |
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