• Learn

    Tulane Courses on Musical Cultures
    Jump into innovative courses vetted by Tulane professors that put the region’s genres in context (jazz, blues, hiphop, zydeco) through videos, readings, bios, photos, and more.

  • K-12 Educator Courses

    Designed to help teachers investigate New Orleans’ rich cultural traditions with their students.

  • Watch

    Archival Footage
    300+ videos, including original interviews and performances.

  • Listen

    Hogan Jazz Archive
    500+ digitized oral histories from the premiere archive of jazz and New Orleans music.

  • Resources

    Confetti Park, HipHop Archive, Preservation Hall, The Porch Sessions, U.S. Mint
    Various goodies.

  • Summer Workshop 2019

    New Orleans: Music Culture and Civil Rights

    Click here for more information.

  • Learn how to use this site.

Discover the connections through people, places, instruments, themes and songs.

Create your own path of inquiry into the culture of the Gulf South through geography or genre, songs or themes, instruments or influences.

  • Louise “Blue Lu” Barker

    Guitarist, banjoist, singer, composer, and writer Daniel Moses Barker (1909-1994)…

  • Les Blank

    Les Blank is a prize-winning independent filmmaker, best known for…

  • James Booker

    James Booker (1939 – 1983) is widely regarded as one…

Please check back soon as we are currently updating our offerings of oral histories from the Hogan Jazz Archive.