Matt Sakakeeny
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at Tulane University, offering expert historical and cultural analysis of jazz origins.
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Mar 8, 2026 • 26min
Let slaves dance: The secret of New Orleans jazz
Dr Matt Sakakeeny, Tulane ethnomusicologist and department chair, traces jazz from Congo Square to global stages. He explores ring shouts and call-and-response, the colony-era quirks that allowed musical life, New Orleans’ multicultural mixing pot, and how figures like Buddy Bolden and Louis Armstrong synthesized traditions into early jazz.
