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Creolization In New Orleans: Jazz And Cultural Hybridity 1900-1940, Franklin Dennis Dow
Creolization In New Orleans: Jazz And Cultural Hybridity 1900-1940, Franklin Dennis Dow
Masters Theses
ABSTRACT
My project builds on existing histories of jazz, theories of creolization, and studies on cultural hybridity. Creolization and hybridity were equal partners in the creation of a societal and musical revolution. As a student and a performer of jazz, I have found that this aspect of jazz history has been neglected and under researched. This thesis attempts to fill in this gap and is guided by four major questions: (1) How did creolization and cultural hybridity influence the development and reception of jazz in the early half of the twentieth century? (2) How did the Creole and Black communities …