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The enslaved of New Orleans make music and dance together at the city's edge. This is the story of Congo Square: the people who gathered there every Sunday—and the African culture they kept alive.
Listen to "Tan Patate-La Tchuite" by Adelaide Van Wey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F8jFIbCD1o
LEARN MORE:
Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans by Freddi Williams 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 to Congo Square by Ned Sublette
City of a Million Dreams: New Orleans at 300 by Jason Berry
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell
“African Cultural Memory in New Orleans Music” by Jason 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 Music in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans” by Ted Widmer
Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War by Dena J. Epstein
https://antigravitymagazine.com/feature/sacred-ground/
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French Quarter Bourbon walk.wav by volivieri --https://freesound.org/s/110012/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
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