The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11475 Message #2006232
Posted By: Azizi
24-Mar-07 - 08:29 PM
Thread Name: What is Zydeco?
Subject: RE: What is Zydeco?
..."Acadiana music Acadiana has five main musical genres - Cajun music, Creole music, swamp blues, swamp pop, and zydeco. These historically-rooted genres, with unique rhythms and personalities, have been transformed with modern sounds and instruments.
Swamp pop
Main article: Swamp pop Swamp pop came about in the mid 1950s. With the Cajun dance and musical conventions in mind, nationally popular rock, pop, country, and R&B songs were re-recorded, sometimes in French. Swamp Pop is more of a combination of many influences, and the bridge between Zydeco, New Orleans second line, and rock and roll. The song structure is pure rock and roll, the rhythms are distinctly New Orleans based, the chord changes, vocals and inflections are R&B influenced, and the lyrics are sometimes French.
Swamp blues
Main article: Swamp blues A sparse but funky sub-genre of blues that flourished in the 1960s, swamp blues was centered in Crowley, Louisiana — home of Jay Miller's Excello Records, which recorded Louisiana-based swamp blues acts including Slim Harpo, Lazy Lester, Lightinin' Slim, and Katie Webster"...