What are the five cultures present in New Orleans

The Influences We can divide the influences of jazz into three categories or styles of music that combine to create early New Orleans jazz:  The Blues  Brass Bands  Ragtime The Blues Three types of songs that existed in the slave camps of the 1700s and 1800s were the field holler , the shout , and the work song. These all served the same purpose -to make the work easier to bear -but had differences in their construction and performance. A field holler is a solo song/shout that doesn’t have a form or meter. It is highly spontaneous and improvisa tional . A shout would be a slightly more organized holler that might contain actual verses or stanzas that give the holler a form. A work song would be sung by a group of workers in a call and response pattern often with the work tools providing a rhythmic accompaniment. The kind of thing you might hear Marines in boot camp shouting as they march in drills today. Here’s a short example of a field holler and a work song. The field holler lasts the first 45 seconds and than a work song comes in for another 45 seconds. The Mississippi Delta