New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a city where music spills out of the neighborhoods and into the street. Your own New Orleans, the sounds, the people and the places, is worth keeping in your own words.
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Who taught you to love the music that runs through your life in New Orleans?
New Orleans is a city where people show up for one another, and keeping your stories is one more way to show up. You can answer each day's question in the time it takes a brass band to round the corner. Your words stay private while you live, and an Archive Membership guide can later lead your chosen people to them, word for word.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The National Park Service describes how early jazz was found in neighborhoods all over New Orleans, a normal part of community life. Brass bands became enormously popular, and parades by neighborhood social aid and pleasure clubs gave musicians dependable work and young players an important training ground. Perhaps you grew up hearing a horn from down the block, or learned to play in a school band. What music runs through your own life here, and who taught you to love it?
When neighborhood benevolent societies paraded with their hired band, community members who joined in the dancing behind them became known as the second line, a joyful way of showing up for one another. Earlier, Congo Square was famous for African dances and for keeping African musical and cultural traditions alive, and Mardi Gras Indian music was part of the world that early jazz grew from. These traditions are about community. Who are your people in this city, and how do you show up for each other?
The French Quarter, or Vieux Carré, is protected as a historic district so its buildings of architectural and historical value can be preserved, and the National Park Service describes three centuries of cultural exchange that made New Orleans one of America's most distinctive cities. Beyond the Quarter, every neighborhood has its own corner, its own po' boy shop and its own way of talking. Tell the New Orleans you know, so the people after you can hear it in your voice.
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