Music of the Louisiana Gulf Coast
Allen Tullos (compiler), Emory University
Abstract:
Where the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico
meet and mingle, South Louisiana is one of the richest regions of traditional
and contemporary music. Its extraordinary cultural diversity finds expression
through cajun fiddlers and accordion players. Black creole bands performing
the dance music called zydeco, New Orleans jazz in its many permutations,
brass band second-liners, piano professors, gospel singers, church choirs,
rhythm and blues shouters, country-western honky tonkers, swamp rockers,
Dirty South rappers — to list major examples. This page offers a passageway
into this song-saturated region.
Gateway Sections:
New Orleans Jazz:
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Nick Spitzer of American Routes talks with writer Jason
Berry about the musical and dance history of New Orleans' Congo
Square from the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth
century and the "birth of jazz." Nick also interviews
a descendant of jazz pioneer Sidney Bechet.
(RealAudio,
7:16 minutes)
http://www.amroutes.com/ram/AR_0144JBerry.ram
Louis
Armstrong remembered and revealed through his personal collection
of reel-to-reel tape and home recordings.
(RealAudio,
7:28 minutes)
http://www.amroutes.com/ram/AR_0131Armstrong.ram
On the trail of Jelly
Roll Morton. (RealAudio, 16:38 minutes) http://www.amroutes.com/ram/AR_0106Morton.ram
The Red Hot
Jazz Archive is an extraordinary website for pre-1930s jazz
and its New Orleans history. It contains RealAudio sound samples,
essays, biographies, photos, references, and links. http://www.redhotjazz.com |
Audio interviews and musical samples require RealPlayer, free
at real.com.
Gateway Sections:
