1 – The Mexican Tinge [Header image: The Mexican Band in New Orleans on December 1884. Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection.] Title: The Mexican Tinge: The Influence of Mexican Musicians and the Mexican Band in the Development of Early Jazz and Ragtime. Author: Franco Laguna Correa Tags: Festivals and Competitions, Mobilities, Nationalism and Empire. Series: Quick Takes The African and Afro-Cuban rhythmic influences upon the development of jazz at the end of the nineteenth century have been well documented. However, little attention has been paid to the contributions of Mexican and Afromexican musicians to this musical practice prior to what is celebrated in popular culture as the Jazz Age⎯the 1920s and 1930s. In this essay I explore some of the