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| | Phoenix Rising - Harry Potter Conference - Storyville |
 | | As the Créoles were slowly forced into Uptown with the influx of former slaves migrating to the city, two musical traditions the embellishments of the Créoles and the raucous passion of the newly-freed slaves collided and merged. |
 | | Storyville, known to its residents as "the battlefield" for its quality of life, provided an incubator for jazz, not only in its brothels, but in its saloons and cabarets. |
 | | The great New Orleans jazz tradition thrives, however, first with the new king of Louis Armstrong's trumpet, and today with the funeral second lines, the rowdy parades, the mean blues in Preservation Hall and Tipitina's, and the countless street performers who lend a unique rhythm to the daily life of the Crescent City. |
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