^ F. Holt, Genre in Widespread Music (University of Chicago Press, 2007), ISBN 0226350398 , p. 56. Most accounts place the origin of jazz in New Orleans between 1890 and 1900. There, in a bustling coastal city with worldwide connections, A…

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