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New Orleans

The Mississippi delta port whose unusual layering of colonial regimes made it the densest musical crossroads in North America.

30.0, -90.1 · approximate · founded 1718; the period of interest here is c. 1790–1920

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  • A place in: Music Across Continents · 7 places
  • Joined to: Havana — New Orleans · 2 places

Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.

Connections · 3 of 4

  • is connected to of HavanaContinuous Gulf shipping and touring traffic between the two ports carried habanera, danzón and son into New Orleans dance music through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • is located in of Congo Square, New OrleansThe square lies beyond Rampart Street in the Tremé, within what is now Louis Armstrong Park.
  • is originates in of JazzJazz took shape among Black and Creole musicians in New Orleans in the years around 1900, out of materials the city's port function had assembled there.
Mission history61 missions · 19592026 · 2 planned
Luna 1 · 1959 · Soviet Union · FlybyLuna 2 · 1959 · Soviet Union · ImpactorLuna 3 · 1959 · Soviet Union · FlybyLuna 9 · 1966 · Soviet Union · LanderLuna 10 · 1966 · Soviet Union · OrbiterLuna 13 · 1966 · Soviet Union · LanderZond 5 · 1968 · Soviet Union · FlybyLuna 16 · 1970 · Soviet Union · Sample returnLuna 17 · Lunokhod 1 · 1970 · Soviet Union · RoverLuna 20 · 1972 · Soviet Union · Sample returnLuna 21 · Lunokhod 2 · 1973 · Soviet Union · RoverLuna 24 · 1976 · Soviet Union · Sample returnLuna 25 · 2023 · RU · LanderRanger 7 · 1964 · United States · ImpactorRanger 8 · 1965 · United States · ImpactorRanger 9 · 1965 · United States · ImpactorSurveyor 1 · 1966 · United States · LanderSurveyor 3 · 1967 · United States · LanderSurveyor 5 · 1967 · United States · LanderSurveyor 6 · 1967 · United States · LanderSurveyor 7 · 1968 · United States · LanderLunar Orbiter 1 · 1966 · United States · OrbiterApollo 8 · 1968 · United States · Crewed orbitApollo 11 · 1969 · United States · Crewed landingApollo 12 · 1969 · United States · Crewed landingApollo 13 · 1970 · United States · Crewed orbitApollo 14 · 1971 · United States · Crewed landingApollo 15 · 1971 · United States · Crewed landingApollo 16 · 1972 · United States · Crewed landingApollo 17 · 1972 · United States · Crewed landingClementine · 1994 · United States · OrbiterLunar Prospector · 1998 · United States · OrbiterLunar Reconnaissance Orbiter · 2009 · United States · OrbiterLCROSS · 2009 · United States · ImpactorGRAIL (Ebb and Flow) · 2012 · United States · OrbiterLADEE · 2013 · United States · OrbiterCAPSTONE · 2022 · United States · Technology demonstratorArtemis I · 2022 · United States · OrbiterArtemis II · 2026 · United States · Crewed orbitPeregrine Mission One · 2024 · United States · LanderIM-1 Odysseus · 2024 · United States · LanderBlue Ghost Mission 1 · 2025 · United States · LanderIM-2 Athena · 2025 · United States · LanderSMART-1 · 2004 · EU · OrbiterHiten · 1990 · JP · Technology demonstratorKaguya (SELENE) · 2007 · JP · OrbiterSLIM · 2024 · JP · LanderHakuto-R Mission 1 · 2023 · JP · LanderChang’e 1 · 2007 · CN · OrbiterChang’e 2 · 2010 · CN · OrbiterChang’e 3 · Yutu · 2013 · CN · RoverChang’e 4 · Yutu-2 · 2019 · CN · RoverChang’e 5 · 2020 · CN · Sample returnChang’e 6 · 2024 · CN · Sample returnChandrayaan-1 · 2008 · IN · OrbiterChandrayaan-2 · 2019 · IN · OrbiterChandrayaan-3 · Vikram and Pragyan · 2023 · IN · RoverDanuri (KPLO) · 2022 · KR · OrbiterBeresheet · 2019 · IL · LanderArtemis III · planned · United States · PlannedArtemis IV · planned · United States · Planned

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