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City History: New Orleans

City History: New Orleans

Steve Keller
Released: 2025-10-01
© Steve Keller
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32 Episodes
Audio
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Released: 2025-10-01
© Steve Keller
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2.1: Congo Plains

2.1: Congo Plains

Congo Square is often described as the “birthplace of jazz.” But its history goes far deeper—as a place where, every Sunday, the enslaved of New Orleans would practice traditional African music and dance. In this first episode of a trilogy, we exa
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Congo Square is often described as the “birthplace of jazz.” But its history goes far deeper—as a place where, every Sunday, the enslaved of New Orleans would practice traditional African music and dance.
In this first episode of a trilogy, we examine Congo Square’s origins, its persistence across French and Spanish New Orleans, and how early American officials sought to regulate it.
LEARN MORE:
Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans by FreddiWilliams Evans
Congo Square in New Orleans by Jerah Johnson
“A Window on Slave Culture: Dances at Congo Square in NewOrleans, 1800-1862” by Gary A. Donaldson
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver toCongo Square by Ned Sublette
City of a Million Dreams: New Orleans at 300 by JasonBerry
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans byLawrence N. Powell
“African Cultural Memory in New Orleans Music” byJason Berry
“Deep Skin: Reconstructing Congo Square” by Joseph R. Roach
“New Orleans Music as a Circulatory System” by Matt Sakakeeny
“The Invention of a Memory: Congo Square and African Musicin Nineteenth-Century New Orleans” by Ted Widmer
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Release Date: 01/10/2025, 04:58:41

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A podcast exploring the history of New Orleans. Your support helps buy the books needed to make each episode! https://ko-fi.com/cityhistory
We'll cover New Orleans's founding, its evolution through French, Spanish and American rule, the battle that saved it in 1815, Congo Square, its dramatic capture and occupation during the Civil War, its unique legacy of race and slavery, how it survived Prohibition, the Depression and hurricanes, Mardi Gras, jazz and the future New Orleans may (or may not) have.

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