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jazz ch4 (deveaux)
terms about New Orleans
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Undergraduate 1
02/20/2010

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New Orleans jazz derived from...?
Definition
marching bands and dance music and transformed them into collective improv
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Congo Square
Definition
behind French Quarter, place for free blacks to dance and play music on sundays
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Creoles of Color
Definition
'drop of black blood' makes you black; mixed race blacks = creoles of color; evolved into social group
-had some social freedcoms, owned property -spoke french, english, catholic, education, worked trades (cigar making, cobbling, carpentry)
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End of Creoles of color priviledges?
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after Civil War during Reconstruction pd, strict race lines; Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, enforced rigid color line
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Creoles v. Uptown Negroes
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Creoles wanted to distinguish themselves, but Jim C. laws integrated the 2, Creoles felt Uptowners "faked" performances b/c they ddnt read music
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N.O. bands
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consists of brass band societies known as FRONT LINE
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What is most distinctive feature of N.O.jazz?
Definition
collective improv.
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What forms does N.O. jazz use?
Definition
multistrain forms of ragtime- not simple repetitive structures completely
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Great Migration
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jazz leaves New Orleans, former slaves drift away from agricultural cities like N.O. moving further north to ghettos in Chicago & N.Y.
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ODJB
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Original Dixieland Jazz Band; 5 or 7 members; (p90-91)
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Jazz Age
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1920s
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staccato
Definition
sharp (detached) chords with collective improv
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snake rag (p102)
Definition
rag following march/ragtime structures of several disparate strains; slang for the complicated chromatic (moving my half step) lines
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