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Big Freedia performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2014; this photograph captures that appearance. Freedia brought bounce, New Orleans' call-and-response dance music, to audiences far beyond the city. The genre emerged in New Orleans in the early 1990s, drawing on neighborhood roll calls, percussion and the Triggaman beat. This pin marks the Fair Grounds, Jazz Fest's venue, where the pictured performance took place. Bounce did not originate at this racecourse: its roots are in the city's neighborhoods and clubs. Freedia's festival appearance shows how far that local sound traveled.
Quick facts
- ·The photograph shows Big Freedia at New Orleans Jazz Fest on April 26, 2014.
- ·Jazz Fest takes place at the Fair Grounds Race Course.
- ·Bounce developed in New Orleans neighborhoods and clubs in the early 1990s.
- ·Big Freedia helped bring the genre to a wider audience.
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