Promotional video for Louisiana Sheet Music, a Tulane University Libraries digital collection. View the collection here: https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:p15140coll47. The Louisiana Sheet Music Collection is comprised of sheet music published in, or with topical relevance to, Louisiana (with an emphasis on New Orleans). Many important local composers are represented, including Basile Bares, Eugene Chassaignac, Edouard Déjan and Louis Moreau Gottschalk as well as several interesting, but lesser known, nineteenth-century composers. The collection covers 100 years in the history of local publishing (1838-1938) and represents a wide range of styles of popular and vernacular music, including Creole songs, nineteenth-century dance music, Confederate anthems, Mexican and Cuban danzas and danzon, ragtime, blues, and jazz. Video produced by Digital Scholarship & Initiatives at Tulane University Libraries. Edited by Alan Velasquez.
