Gumbo Documentary Analysis

Today in class we watched a video on Gumbo. The Gumbo we saw today was not about the creation of the famous New Orleans dish, but the creation of Jazz. The Documentary Gumbo was directed by Ken Burns who interviewed different people from critics to famous musicians. One of the famous musicians he interviewed was Wynton Marsalis a famous trumpet player. In the introduction Marsalis said something that grabbed my attention, he said: “music is a language”.
New Orleans was the home for many people of different race, gender, and nationality. There were people from the Caribbean’s to European countries all living in the same state tolerating each other. New Orleans was one of the first free states in which integration was finally happening. With