New Orleans jazz
treme is dominated by the color people of Louisiana from African 
ancestry and French Creole, it’s one of the oldest neighborhood in New 
Orleans black people from Africa live there and it was a place where 
slave trade would have happened people would come here and buy 
slaves in the town square of Treme also known as “Congo square” they 
would call it’s a place of Negros. The place specifically knows about buying 
and selling of negro additionally African American people would come 
here on every Sunday, they would dance in African style sing songs and 
people who were slave they would sell goods to end slavery.
 People from the town would gather around on every Sunday and them 
would watch the dance and singing, they would wear their traditional 
costumes to let the people know that how are they committed to their cultural values similarly they would use drums to sing songs which 
would be inspired by their people for freedom besides the singing and 
dancing black people were allowed to do their religious rituals praying 
was allowed in public on Sundays alone within that was a voodoo its was 
religious ceremony but it’s kind of exotic while the voodoo in Congo 
Square was predominantly a form of entertainment and a celebration 
of African culture. Some of the dances and types of music heard in 
Congo Square were the result of these voodoo ceremonies. That’s how 
jazz music been started in the 1900th century in New Orleans 
communities of black African people jazz emerge as a popular 
traditional musical style jazz is mixed different types of musical style.

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