{"id":64062,"date":"2022-11-27T06:11:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T06:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=64062"},"modified":"2022-11-27T06:11:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T06:11:56","slug":"jazz-a-la-creole-french-creole-music-and-the-birth-of-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64062","title":{"rendered":"Jazz \u00e0 la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jazz \u00e0 la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University Press of Mississippi<\/a>
\nNovember 2022
\n248 pages
\n1 table; 29 b&w figures; 20 musical examples
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781496842404
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781496842428<\/p>\n

Caroline V\u00e9zina<\/strong><\/a>
\nMontr\u00e9al, Quebec, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

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The first scholarly volume dedicated to French Creole music and its contribution to the development of jazz in New Orleans<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

During the formative years of jazz<\/a> (1890\u20131917), the Creoles of Color<\/a>\u2014as they were then called\u2014played a significant role in the development of jazz as teachers, bandleaders, instrumentalists, singers, and composers. Indeed, music penetrated all aspects of the life of this tight-knit community, proud of its French heritage and language. They played and\/or sang classical, military, and dance music as well as popular songs and cantiques<\/em><\/a> that incorporated African, European, and Caribbean elements decades before early jazz appeared. In Jazz \u00e0 la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz<\/em>, the author describes the music played by the Afro-Creole community since the arrival of enslaved Africans in La Louisiane<\/a>, then a French colony, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, emphasizing the many cultural exchanges that led to the development of jazz.<\/p>\n

Caroline V\u00e9zina has compiled and analyzed a broad scope of primary sources found in diverse locations from New Orleans<\/a> to Quebec City<\/a>, Washington, DC<\/a>, New York City<\/a>, and Chicago<\/a>. Two previously unpublished interviews add valuable insider knowledge about the music on French plantations and the danses Cr\u00e9oles<\/em> held in Congo Square<\/a> after the Civil War<\/a>. Musical and textual analyses of cantiques provide new information about the process of their appropriation by the Creole Catholics as the French counterpart of the Negro spirituals<\/a>. Finally, a closer look at their musical practices indicates that the Creoles sang and improvised music and\/or lyrics of Creole songs, and that some were part of their professional repertoire. As such, they belong to the Black American and the Franco-American folk music traditions that reflect the rich cultural heritage of Louisiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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