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Bayeux Tapestry detail: Coronation of Harold, created by Myrabella, 2013, used under Creative Commons license

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Early New Orleans Citation of “Jas”

March 11, 2020

8 June 2009

Ben Zimmer over at Visual Thesaurus has a blog post about a newly found early citation for jas from New Orleans. It’s from 1916, so it doesn’t change the prevailing theory of the origin of jazz, but early citations like this are always interesting.

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