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Creating Culture: The Rituals Customs and Traditions of Jazz Fest

May 1, 2014 by: Stephen Maloney

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is made up of millions of individual elements that all come together to form what Jazz Fest producer Quint Davis has called “the greatest cultural party in the world.”

For a pair of anthropologists who have been documenting Jazz Fest for the past three years, the people in the crowd are the main attraction. Nicholls State University Assi...

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