Ken Burns 'Jazz' Excerpt
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People from all over the world came to new Orleans, pirates, adventurers, exiles and criminals, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Germans, englishmen, Irishmen, indians, chinese, Italians, west, indians, Africans. In the hundreds of tenements in the rear of the front street buildings, there were people of all nationalities living side by side and there was a whole lot of integrating, going on, Danny barker, spread first by itinerant musicians and then by the sale of sheet music. It was instantly popular with young dancers all over the country who loved it all the more because their parents did not.