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  • Funk in themes

    Few words conjure as many meanings and ideas as the word funk. It is a type of music, a way of playing music, a rhythm, a scent, a description, a concept, a philosophy, and an entire way of life. It has been used to portray and describe everything from food…

  • Bounce in themes

    Bounce is an intensely local and popular form of indigenous street music in New Orleans that has had an indelible influence on hip-hop, brass band, and other cultural and artistic forms since its sound first coalesced in the early 1990s. Growing out of the local New Orleans rap scene of…

  • Hip-Hop in themes

    Intro to American Hiphop By Region: East Coast The West African and African American oral traditions of the "Black Atlantic," as post-colonial studies scholar Paul Gilroy has termed it, are part of a diverse set of folk cultural systems organized around a loosely based framework of shared aesthetics. Hiphop is…

  • Jazz in themes

    Traditional New Orleans jazz began to emerge in the city circa 1885 - 1890, although the term jazz was not used at time. The music combined essential African-rooted aesthetic and stylistic traits with European instruments, and, to some extent, European standards of song structure and notation. Continue reading on KnowLouisiana.org

  • Country Music in themes

    Country music encompasses an extremely wide range of material created over a broad span of time. The term itself did not appear in common usage until the mid-twentieth century. Country's oldest origins can be traced to British folk-music traditions - including ballads ("The House Carpenter") and fiddle tunes ("The Devil's…

  • Zydeco in themes

    Zydeco (pronounced ZY-duh-coe) is the exuberant dance music of Creoles in southwest Louisiana. It is a rich hybrid, based on core Afro-Caribbean rhythms and song forms such as juré singing, African-American blues and rhythm & blues, and Cajun music. (The term zydeco typically denotes black bands, while Cajun usually denotes…

  • Swamp Pop Music in themes

    Swamp pop is a hybrid of rock, pop, blues and rhythm & blues performed by Cajun and Creole musicians. It overlaps with Cajun music, zydeco and south Louisiana "swamp blues," underscoring the porous nature of musical boundaries and the futility of separating music into neat, precise categories. Swamp pop emerged…

  • Brass Bands of New Orleans in themes

    In the 19th century, brass band music became a national craze. Virtually every small town in America boasted at least one such group, while New Orleans was home to dozens. Their presence and popularity was one important factor in the evolution of jazz. Continue reading on KnowLouisiana.org

  • Blues in themes

    The blues is a basic bedrock source of American indigenous music. For over a century it has flourished in its own right while profoundly influencing a wide range of jazz, rhythm & blues, rock, and country-music styles, as well as Broadway musicals, classical compositions, rap and hip-hop music, and more.…

  • Opera and Ballet in themes

    During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries New Orleans was regarded as a leading American center of opera and ballet, with standards of performance that easily rivaled those of larger cities in the northeast. This level of interest and participation have continuously flourished up until today, both in New Orleans and…

  • Rap, Hip-Hop and Bounce Music in themes

    Although rap, hip-hop and bounce are often regarded as contemporary/cutting-edge music, they are all firmly rooted in African-American folk-music tradition, as evidenced by such factors as call-and-response and improvisation. Since the late 1980s these genres have commanded a huge following and triggered considerable recording activity in Louisiana, especially in New…

  • Record Labels in Louisiana in themes

    Louisiana has been home to locally-based record companies since the 1890s, but the most significant activity took place from shortly after World War II until the advent of CDs, beginning in the mid 1980s, made 45-rpm records obsolete. Louisiana based companies documented a wealth of regional music that would have…

  • Rock Music in themes

    "Rock music" is an umbrella term that covers a wide range of styles created since the mid-1950s, with antecedents that date back for decades. Louisiana has made vital contributions to rock since its inception. Four famous musicians are generally thought to comprise rock's conceptual "Mount Rushmore" and two of them…

  • Rockabilly in themes

    Rockabilly music is a seminal, first-generation rock-and-roll style distinguished by extreme rhythmic drive and a full-tilt approach to both singing and instrumental soloing. Conversely, rockabilly often employs sparse instrumentation that favors an acoustic, upright bass. There is considerable overlap between rockabilly and country music, as evidenced among other factors, by…

  • Shape Note Singing in themes

    The a capella genre known as shape-note singing, primarily heard in renditions of Christian religious material, employs four-part harmony. Each of the four parts is assigned to a group of people, the size of which may vary, as opposed to four-part harmony as sung by quartets, wherein there is only…

  • Jazz Funerals and Second Line Parades in themes

    New Orleans is a city of parades, most famously the Mardi Gras processions that roll down the wide boulevards of St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street during Carnival season, but in all the seasons and in every neighborhood there are jazz funerals and parades known as second lines that fill…

  • Black Gospel in themes

    Gospel music is a broad term for Christian religious music - much of which has folkloric roots - that is prevalent in Louisiana's African-American and Anglo-American communities alike. Gospel music's core practitioners are found in congregations of various Protestant denominations, although gospel music influence also permeates some Catholic choirs in…

  • Cajun Music in themes

    The Cajun music of southwestern Louisiana and east Texas shines as one of America's most significant and distinctive indigenous genres. Currently in the fourth decade of a rich cultural renaissance, Cajun music is most frequently performed today by bands in which the diatonic accordion is the dominant signature instrument. Fiddles,…

  • Rhythm & Blues Music in themes

    Rhythm & blues - also known as R&B - is an African-American commercial music genre with distinct roots in traditional blues and gospel music. While significantly influenced by such sources, R&B also differs in that those songs are written with the deliberate goal of crafting a hit. Blues and gospel…

  • Calenda Dance in themes

    The Calinda was a voodoo dance brought to Louisiana from San Domingo and the Antilles by slaves. Calinda (Kalinda) is a martial art, as well as kind of folk music and dance in the Caribbean which arose in the 1720s. Calinda is the French spelling, and the Spanish equivalent is…

  • New Orleans Sound in themes

    With strong drums, heavy guitar and bass, light piano, light horn sound and a strong vocal lead, this signature New Orleans sound was codified by recording engineer Cosimo Matassa at his J&M Studios and can be heard on recordings by everyone from Fats Domino and Ray Charles to Dr. John…

  • Dixieland in themes

    Dixieland, which was developed in New Orleans, is one of the earliest styles of Jazz music. The style combined earlier brass band marches, French Quadrilles, ragtime and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation. While instrumentation and size of bands can be very flexible, the “standard” band consists of a “front line”…

  • Mardi Gras Indians in themes

    The Mardi Gras Indians are African-American men who form groups known as tribes. On some levels these tribes function as neighborhood social clubs, yet they also have a serious cultural mission. They parade in New Orleans — principally on Mardi Gras Day, but also on other occasions such as Indian…

  • Social Aids & Pleasure Clubs in themes

    Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs (SAPCs) in New Orleans are a distinctive culture that reaches back to the earliest days of Africans in America. The clubs were created for fellowship and as a financial support system to properly bury deceased African slaves and free people of color. SAPCs represent a…

  • Soul in themes

    Soul music is a genre of popular music rooted in the African-American experience. The concept of "soul" has both metaphysical and earthly connotations. In music, it is both a trait of certain music and later a certain kind of music itself. New Orleans has had a great influence on soul…

  • Amanda Shaw in people

    Amanda Amaya Shaw (born August 2, 1990) is an American cajun fiddler, singer, and actress from Covington, Louisiana. Shaw received some of her early musical training in Southeastern Louisiana University’s Community Music School. She studied classical violin starting at age 4, and at 8 began playing and performing Cajun music.…

  • The Wiseguys in people

    Founded in 1997 by six local New Orleans musicians, The Wiseguys are an entertaining and diverse ten piece group with a dynamic stage presence. From old standards to new favorites, they are able to play any type of music for even the most demanding audiences. Source: Wikipedia

  • Tab Benoit in people

    Tab Benoit (born November 17, 1967, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American blues guitarist, musician and singer. He plays a style that is a combination of blues styles, primarily Delta blues. He plays a Fender Telecaster Thinline electric guitar and writes his own musical compositions. Benoit graduated from Vandebilt Catholic…

  • Rockin' Dopsie Sr. in people

    Rockin' Dopsie was born Alton Rubin on February 10, 1932. Along with Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier, he is widely acknowledged to be one of the originators of the zydeco music. (He was also known as Rockin' Dopsie Sr. to differentiate him from his son, Rockin' Dopsie Jr., also a…

  • Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. in people

    “When Rockin’ Dopsie, Sr. unexpectedly passed away in 1993, the Dopsie family vowed to keep his memory alive, mainly in the incarnation of this band, Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters. In doing so, it’s become its own phenomenon. No other zydeco band has ever been fronted by a…

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