What follows is an overview of jazz history that provides a foundation for this study.
The enculturation of jazz in New Orleans depended strongly on a tradition of itinerant bandleaders.
Even before jazz, for most New Orleanians, music was not a luxury as it often is elsewhere–it was a necessity.
WWNO radio producer Fred Kasten interviews legends of New Orleans jazz in his monthly Talkin' Jazz series held at Old U.S. Mint in partnersh
Click here to access the online collection published by Tulane University's Hogan Jazz Archives entitled the Jazz Archivist.
Click here for Dr. Sherrie Tuckers' research study, A Feminist Perspective on New Orleans Jazzwomen
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