THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO LIL TECCA NEW JAZZ TYPE BEAT

Generally these music was connected to once-a-year festivals, if the 12 months's crop was harvested and several days were set aside for celebration. As late as 1861, a traveler in North Carolina observed dancers dressed in costumes that involved horned headdresses and cow tails and heard music furnished by a sheepskin-coated "gumbo box", apparently