During this time, the European classical legacy and the influence of European folk and African/Caribbean elements were merged with a popular American mainstream, which combined and adapted Old World practices into new forms deriving from a distinctive regional environment. The 1870s represented the culmination of a century of music making in the Crescent City. Throughout the nineteenth century, diverse ethnic and racial groups - French, Spanish, and African, Italian, German, and Irish - found common cause in their love of music. Even before jazz, for most New Orleanians, music was not a luxury as it often is elsewhere–it was a necessity.
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