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DVD, 2010
Current format, DVD, 2010, , All copies in use.
DVD, 2010
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Jazz is born in New Orleans during the 1890s, at the height of the Jim Crow era. It is a creation of the African-American community but incorporates every kind of music heard in the streets of the country's most cosmopolitan city, from Caribbean dances and Italian opera to blues, ragtime, military marches, and the call and response of the Baptist church. Its first practitioners include Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet. Few people beyond its birthplace have a chance to even hear jazz until 1917, when a group of white musicians, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, make the first recording. It outsells every record previously made, and Jazz becomes a national craze.
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