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    transformation of the U.S. recording industry. Ann Arbor, [Michigan]: University of Michigan Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-472-12431-2. The New Orleans Rhythm Kings (NORK)...
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  • This is a list of songs set in or about New Orleans, Louisiana. This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for...
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    'Americanized' New Orleans and its Creoles. To a certain extent, New Orleans 'creolized' the Americans. Thus the wonder of Anglo-Americans boasting of how their...
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    including used military band instruments. The Creole people of New Orleans also contributed greatly to the evolution of the artform, though their own music became...
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  • The New Orleans Pelicans are an American professional basketball team based in New Orleans. The Pelicans compete in the National Basketball Association...
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    year of birth. He moved to New Orleans in his youth. He first studied the trombone, then changed to cornet. From 1908 to 1917, he played cornet in New Orleans...
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  • Musique de New Orleans et de la Louisiane. Retrieved March 18, 2024. Willging, Dan (December 1, 2022). "Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys, Boots...
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    Ward or Sixth Ward is one of the seventeen Wards of New Orleans, located in the Downtown section of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The 6th Ward is...
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    New Orleans is home to a wide variety of sporting events. Most notable are the home games of the New Orleans Saints (NFL) and the New Orleans Pelicans...
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  • Freddie Keppard (category Jazz musicians from New Orleans)
    even accentuation and a silent d) was born in the Creole of Color community of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. Born in 1890, Keppard was Buddy Bolden's...
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    Emmett Hardy (category New Orleans Rhythm Kings members)
    and Emmett Hardy as second. As with other New Orleans jazz bands of that time (such as King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and The Original Tuxedo Orchestra)...
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    The Rebellion of 1768, also known as the Revolt of 1768 or the Creole Revolt, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Creole elite of New Orleans, along with...
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  • by early jazz groups: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, New Orleans Rhythm Kings and others included a large number of Tin Pan Alley popular songs in their...
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  • Swamp pop (category Louisiana Creole culture)
    region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s by young Cajuns and Creoles, it combines New Orleans–style...
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  • Gullah (also called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within...
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  • The New Orleans Pelicans are a professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team commenced play in 2002 after the NBA...
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    Columbians That American Boy of Mine recorded by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra Tin Roof Blues recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings Who's Sorry Now recorded...
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    Fleur-de-lis (redirect from Flower of lily)
    Orleans and throughout Louisiana, as a symbol of grassroots support for New Orleans' recovery. The coat of arms of St. Augustine, Florida has a fleur-de-lis...
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  • from their style of New Orleans music. Having heard records, they went out to hear the bands themselves and discovered King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, rounding...
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  • Haitian Creole and all other French dialects and French-derived creoles are included, and when Cantonese, Mandarin and other varieties of Chinese are...
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    Gris-gris (talisman) (category Superstitions of Africa)
    ill-fortune. In spite of the negative connotations of gris-gris, so-called Gris-Gris doctors have operated in the Creole communities of Louisiana for some...
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    singer, songwriter and bandleader. He was one of the pioneers of zydeco, the fusion of Louisiana Creole and blues music developed in southwest Louisiana...
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    Creole peoples arrived during the eighteen hundreds. About 600,000 Hondurans are of Garífuna descent that are a mix of African and indigenous as of Afro...
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    Meaux, who ran SugarHill Recording Studios and several record labels in New Orleans. Her first single, "You'll Lose A Good Thing", written by her, was recorded...
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    Kelly Oubre Jr. (category Basketball players from New Orleans)
    project from his birth until the early part of his childhood, later settling in the Eastover section of New Orleans. Oubre attended Edward Hynes Elementary...
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    Reggie Houston (category Jazz musicians from New Orleans)
    Neville Brothers 1988 - "Creole Nightingale" by Tim Williams 1988 - "Ed Frank Quintet/Ramsey McLean & The Survivors - New New Orleans Music: Jump Jazz" 1986...
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  • ISBN 978-0807169322. "Guitar Gable & the Musical Kings at the Eleventh Annual Ponderosa Stomp – New Orleans". Ponderosastomp.com. Retrieved 2014-03-20. "Guitar...
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  • Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans is a 2004 box set compilation gathering 85 songs representing the music of New Orleans from the...
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  • settled chiefly in New Orleans. Thousands of Saint Dominican refugees arrived to Louisiana, which included Creoles of color, white Creoles, and slaves. Some...
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  • Raymond Burke (clarinetist) (category Jazz musicians from New Orleans)
    differentiate white musicians who played New Orleans Style jazz from black or Creole musicians. Since New Orleans jazz is typically associated with the African...
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