Whois & Analysis for wwoz.org

WWOZ is a non-profit community-supported radio station in New Orleans, Louisiana broadcasting at 90.7 FM.

The station specializes in music from or relating to the cultural heritage of New Orleans and the surrounding region of Louisiana.

Cajun music, an emblematic music of Louisiana, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada.

Cajun music is often mentioned in tandem with the Creole-based, Creole-influenced zydeco form, both of Acadiana origin.

These French Louisiana sounds have influenced American popular music for many decades, especially country music, and have influenced pop culture through mass media, such as television commercials.

New Orleans (or) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U.S. Census.

The New Orleans metropolitan area (New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area) had a population of 1,167,764 in 2010 and was the 46th largest in the United States.

The New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa Combined Statistical Area, a larger trading area, had a 2010 population of 1,452,502.

Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in Blues and Ragtime.

Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression.

It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation.

Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.

Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music.

Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well.

Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.

Generally, it is a receiver or transmitter, an antenna, and some smaller additional equipment necessary to operate them.

Radio stations play a vital role in communication technology as they are heavily relied on to transfer data and information across the world.