Meaning of jazz funeral | Babel Free

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A public funeral procession accompanied by a brass band, as traditionally performed in New Orleans, and typically involving a switch at a certain point from sombre to more upbeat music.

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“No other U.S. city has a tradition similar to the jazz funeral, but you can find cognates of the New Orleans funeral parade in the black urban neighborhoods of present-day Cuba and in Haiti.”

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