🇺🇸 UNITED STATES · Chapter 2 of 8 · 11 min read
The Jazz: The Music that Invented Freedom as a Technique (1900–1970)
New Orleans at the end of the 19th century was the most musically complex city in North America: an international port where French, Spanish, African, Caribbean and Anglo-Saxon communities coexisted; a city with a unique street and funeral music tradition on the continent; the only place in the slave South where slaves had a regular legal space to meet, play and dance — **Congo Square**, the square where every Sunday African slaves would reproduce the rhythms and dances of their ancestral traditions.
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