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by Sergio on January 16th, 2006

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What makes zydeco music so popular?

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  • by Arisztid on December 7th, 2007

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    It just plain kicks butt. I had a roommate who was Cajun (very recently out of Louisiana) and, just with his old guitar, voice, a wooden board and a few nails driven into the heel of his shoe to keep beat, could put out some incredible music.

    He was looking for a fiddler and I was trying to get a fiddle so he could teach me Zydeco fiddling (I used to be a skilled classical violinist and decent bluegrass and Celtic fiddler, looking for a teacher to teach me Rromani fiddle).

    Whenever he played, I was right there, as were some of our neighbors.

    I would suggest that if anyone reading this question has not heard of Zydeco, look it up. :)

    I am going to embed a Zydeco song and give you a link to one that is not embeddable. The one in the link is by a country artist (Mary Chapin Carpenter) but she does it up "right"...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULLym4hFxvo

    Here is some straight up Zydeco from my small Zydeco collection:

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  • by Tigerspirit on January 17th, 2006

    Tigerspirit

    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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