... board, rhythm guitar, and drums. It has a mixture of blues and jazz music. Zydeco is dance music that was started by Creole French speaking people of African descent that lived in Southwest Louisiana. It originally consisted of the sound of an accordion and the scrapping of a rubboard. Zydeco has grown with my family. I'm from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, home of Creole cooking, zydeco music, and French talking people ... -step dance whether it's fast or slow. Back in the day as a child, I had no other choice but to listen to the same music of my parents. We had only one radio and as a chil...

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... entertainers in the world." After the death of his mother, Morton began playing in whorehouses and in the bordellos of the Storyville district of New Orleans. There he became active as a gambler, pool shark, and a lot of things that caused his grandmother to throw him out of the house as a bum and a scalawag. ... She did not want him around his two little sisters. As a wanderer, and during the fair of 1904 ... pieces set before him. In 1912, Morton briefly settled in Chicago's South Side where he published his first number, " The Jelly Roll Blues," which was brought out by William Rossit...

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... place to be. Heritage festivals are held occasionally and celebrate our history and ancestors. Jazz and Blues can be heard from many places in the French Quarter. New Orleans is referred as the home of Jazz and is a home to some of the most talented musicians. Tourists can visit the House of Blues for musical entertainment. New Orleans is home to great foods. There is a variety ... of foods from different parts of the world brought over by immigrants. Some of the foods include gumbo, jambalaya, seafood, beignets, and other tasty food ... . Architecture in the city of New Orleans is grea...

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... Car Named Desire was written was just subsequent to the slave trade so the major work force in Elysian Fields must have been of the Negro society. Although it is said that blues music by Negro entertainers is being played at a bar room around the corner, the sign that there is a mixed ethnicity is ... her sister in Elysian Fields. The notion the audience are given of Blanche is instantaneously exposed in the main stage directions on page 117. She seems surprised to find such a mediocre house at where her sisters address is "she looks at the slip of paper then again at the slip and again a...

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... . This mistake turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to him. He was sent to the Coloreds Waif House a reform school on the out skirts of New Orleans. Here Louis was introduced to organized music in the form of the school band. Captain Joseph Jones ran the school band in a military fashion that was extremely strict. It was there that ... mob in Chicago. Gangsters owned most of the clubs in Chicago. Armstrong immediately entered the studios and started recording a series of recording called the Hot Fives and Sevens, which gave him a lasting name. These recordings were some of ...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School