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Article: Crescent city cadence. (jazz and its roots in New Orleans, Louisiana)
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- National Parks
- Article date:
- May 1, 1995
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 National Parks Conservation Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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AN APPRECIATION of history is derived from equal parts of scholarship and imagination. The first feeds on the rules of evidence; the second, on the power of metaphysics. Scholarship, alas, is for the few. But anyone can stand at the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, or at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, conjure up an image of the moment in history that has made these places significant, and feel in the presence of ghosts. That is the metaphysics of history. And to hear jazz in New Orleans, even today, and especially coursing through narrow streets and shallow canyons of the old French architecture, is to hear the mournful howls of many ...