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Music History
Jazz Lectures
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Music
Undergraduate 1
09/21/2008

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Term
What city is the birthplace of Jazz?
Definition
New Orleans, Louisiana
Term
Where were slaves allowed to congregate and perform traditional dances from their African homelands through most of the 19th Century?
Definition
Congo Square
Term
Which previously established music groups became the first azz units in New Orleans?
Definition
Marching Bands
Term
True or False.....

More African slaves were brought to North America than in Brazil, Spanish America or the Caribbean.
Definition
False
Term
True or False....

Because of manumission, by 1800, the number of free blacks outnumbered slaves in the American Hemisphere.
Definition
False
Term
The St. Louis Style of ragtime that took America by storm at the turn of the century was led by what two black composer/publishers? (two answers)
Definition
a. Scott Joplin
b. W.C. Handy
Term
What was Storyville?
Definition
A New Orleans neighborhood set aside for brothels and gambling.
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