Catspaw. I agree it is fun to try to describe music with words; because we can share our reaction to it that way; but I am not a good enough musician/folklorist/historian to take the mixture and really imagine what it sounds like.

Does anyone know where the word "zydeco" comes from. Is it an acronym, or a fusing together of several words? I'll admit, I wasn't in the New Orleans scene; but I never heard the term while I lived in America (until 1975). I have only run into it in record catalogues.

The same with the word "Klezmer". I know that kind of music and have even been involved in it; but I never heard the term until I read it in some music catalogue or other.

Murray