New Orleans Medley: Sounds of the City

What is "New Orleans Music"? Do you know it when you hear it? Can you even articulate what it is that makes it "New Orleans"? 

In the Historic New Orleans Collection's new exhibition, now viewable online in a beautiful immersive experience, the music of the city is considered not as a single genre, but rather a story—and one with considerable range. New Orleans Medley: Sounds of the City highlights three centuries of the city's musical history through vignettes, objects, video, and audio—focusing on the diverse styles and cultural influences present in the musical landscape of New Orleans. Visitors will see rattles from the Chitimacha tribe, similar to instruments used to mark peace with French colonizers in the city's earliest days. They'll walk a line of New Orleans piano players ranging from the famed Professor Longhair to one of the earliest, Louis Moreau Gottschalk. The similarities between the dance club Bounce and early jazz will be on display, and visitors can clip through a jukebox stocked with tracks from the last several hundred years.  hnoc.org