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| | The Bayou Bandits ~ Sounds of Louisiana ~ A Brief History of Cajun / Zydeco / Creole Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | As Savoy explains in her book, Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People, the accordion was brought to Louisiana in the late 19th century by German immigrants, but, because the accordions were tuned in keys that did not match the "open string" tuning of the fiddlers, it was not incorporated into Cajun music. |
| | At the same time that the Cajuns was being transformed by new influences, the African American descendants of slaves who had been brought by force to America were developing their own music, and the music of the two cultures influenced one another. |
| | And, just as with Cajun music, since the music of the 19th century was not recorded and not transcribed in writing, the origins of what has come to be called Creole music will always remain cloudy. |
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