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Topic: music-history

Congo Square in Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans.
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Saturday, 7/4, 01:53 PM

How Congo Square in New Orleans helped shape American music

  • On Sunday afternoons in colonial New Orleans, enslaved and free Africans gathered at Congo Square to drum, sing and dance.
  • The traditions they kept alive there ran forward into jazz, blues and much of the American sound the world now takes for granted.

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