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Close ✕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
On the world
- A place in: Music Across Continents · 7 places
- Joined to: Havana — New Orleans · 2 places
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Connections · 3 of 4
- is connected to of Havana — Continuous 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 Orleans — The square lies beyond Rampart Street in the Tremé, within what is now Louis Armstrong Park.
- is originates in of Jazz — Jazz 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.
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