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jazz funerals

jazz funerals is the plural of jazz funeral.

Meaning of jazz funeral

Noun

jazz funeral (plural jazz funerals)

  1. A public funeral procession accompanied by a brass band, as traditionally performed in New Orleans, and typically involving a switch at a certain point from sombre to more upbeat music.
    • No other U.S. city has a tradition similar to the jazz funeral, but you can find cognates of the New Orleans funeral parade in the black urban neighborhoods of present-day Cuba and in Haiti.2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 110

Questions about jazz funerals

What is jazz funerals the plural of?
Jazz funerals is the plural of jazz funeral.

Words near jazz funerals in the dictionary

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  5. jazz funeral
  6. jazz funerals
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