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Zydeco is the music of the "black cajuns" -- the African-Americans who lived side-by-side with white cajuns in the bayous, speaking French and eating anything that didn't eat them first. It's one of the roots of American jazz, swing and rock-and-roll. Zydeco is pre-eminently dance music, the joyous expression of a poor people in just being alive. You can't listen to it without wanting to get up and dance. Although I have never seen an academic or intellectual analysis to explain why zydeco is more popular than cajun or klezmer, my own theory is that the latter two musics expressed the full range of emotions, from joyous to suicidally depressed, while the blacks in America had the blues to express their sorrows. Thus zydeco never slows down, and never brings you down.
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