1910s-20s

MARCHING BANDS

• Sousa conducting (silent film)

RAGTIME

• Scott Joplin
  • “Maple Leaf Rag” piano roll
• How Does a Player Piano Work?
• Player Piano Rolls–How It’s Made
• Piano Roll Production at QRS Music

JAMES REESE EUROPE

• at Carnegie Hall 1912 with the Clef Club Orchestra

BLUES

• Bessie Smith in St. Louis Blues (1929)

Louis Armstrong

• Louis Armstrong House Museum
• “Satchmo Always Loved Bix”: Jazz As It Should Be Played

New Orleans

• Jazz Neighborhods Map (NPS)
• The Birthplace of Jazz: A Walking Tour (NOH)
• Four Case Studies on the Spread of Early Jazz (musicalgeography.org)
• New Orleans: A Sonic Culture (Robert Sanchez, 2020)
• Sweet and Ratty: Race and Jazz in Turn of the Century New Orleans (2019 Story Map by Wesleyan student Cambria Weaver)