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Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues (American Made Music (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Swamp PopHere is the exciting story of swamp pop, a form of Louisiana music more recognized by its practitioners and their hits than by a definition. Drawing on more than fifty interviews with swamp-pop musicians in south Louisiana and southeast Texas, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues finds the roots of this often overlooked, sometimes derided sister genre of the wildly popular Cajun and zydeco...
Full description- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Published: 24 April 1997
- Format: Paperback 284 pages
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- Categories: Folk & Traditional Music | Blues | Rock & Pop Music | Soul & R 'n' B
- ISBN 13: 9780878058761 ISBN 10: 0878058761
- Sales rank: 400,328
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Full description for Swamp Pop
Here is the exciting story of swamp pop, a form of Louisiana music more recognized by its practitioners and their hits than by a definition. Drawing on more than fifty interviews with swamp-pop musicians in south Louisiana and southeast Texas, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues finds the roots of this often overlooked, sometimes derided sister genre of the wildly popular Cajun and zydeco music. In this first book to be devoted entirely to swamp pop, Shane K. Bernard, son of the notable swamp-pop musician Rod Bernard, uncovers the history of this hybrid form invented in the 1950s by teenage Cajuns and black Creoles. Putting aside the fiddle and accordion of their parents' traditional French music to learn the electric guitar and bass, saxophone, upright piano, and modern drumming trap sets of big-city rhythm-and-blues, they created a spicy new music that arises from the bayou country.
