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	Zydeco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zydeco is a form of folk music, originated in the beginning of the 20th century among the Francophone Creole peoples of south-west Louisiana and influenced by the music of the French-speaking Cajuns.
		Zydeco's rural beginnings and the prevailing economic conditions at its inception are reflected in the song titles, lyrics, and bluesy vocals.
		The music was brought to the fringes of the American mainstream in the mid-1950s, with the popularity of Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zydeco (445 words)

	Zydeco Music: historical geography
		Zydeco is a unique blend of Afro-American and Afro-French musical traditions which developed amid the prairie landscapes of southwest Louisiana.
		The origin of the term "zydeco" is most often attributed to the folk expression "les haricots ne sont pas sales" (the beans are not salted), a saying that reflected those hard times when people could not even afford to put salt pork in their beans.
		The music was best personified by the undisputed King of Zydeco, the late great Clifton Chenier, who was born in 1925 in Opelousas, in the very heart of Creole country in Louisiana.
	www.cwu.edu /~geograph/myzydeco.html (554 words)

	LCVC - Cajun & Zydeco Music
		The Zydeco tradition of music was built by musicians with little or no formal training who improvised the music of their generation out of the ones that came before them.
		Zydeco music was born in exile of ancient traditions which found themselves displaced in a New World where elder ways did not stand in the way of new combinations.
		Zydeco bands are characterized fundamentally by the use of the "frottoir" (metal washboard) played with thimbles, spoons or bottle openers; and the use of the accordion and the singing of rhythm, blues and soul in Creole French.
	www.lafayettetravel.com /culture/music (671 words)

	Music.com \|\|\| Zydeco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Zydeco and Cajun are the premier cultural expressions of the spirited and hardy people of southwest Louisiana.
		The principal instrument in Cajun music is the diatonic accordion, preferably in the key of C. Although it is a German instrument, the Cajun people adopted it in the 1870s.
		While the music's popularity continued to grow in Louisiana, it didn't enter the spotlight nationally until the mid-'80s, riding on the coattails of the Cajun food explosion.
	www.music.com /style/zydeco/1 (493 words)

	Cajun Music: Zydeco: Louisiana: Barry Jean Ancelet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Zydeco, zarico, zodico, zordico, and even zologo represent a few of the spellings used by folklorists, ethnomusicologists, record producers, and filmmakers, as well as dance hall owners and fans, to transcribe the word performers use to describe Louisiana’s fl Creole French music.
		Zydeco also borrowed freely from emerging rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and soul traditions, as well as swing, country, jazz and anything else that may have inspired its definers.
		The state of contemporary zydeco is a good barometer for the contemporary fl Creole society that has only recently begun to explore the complex and specific nature of its history, culture and language.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /99.0_Glossary/Cajun_Music_and_Zydeco.html (1433 words)

	Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture - ZYDECO
		Zydeco is a popular accordion-based musical genre hailing from the prairies of south-central and southwest Louisiana.
		Contrary to popular belief, it is not Cajun in origin; rather, zydeco is the music of south Louisiana’s Creoles of Color, who borrowed many of zydeco’s defining elements from Cajun music.
		Despite its commercialization (and Americanization), zydeco remains a relevant means of cultural expression for the Creoles of Acadiana.
	www.cajunculture.com /Other/zydeco.htm (388 words)

	How to Dance Zydeco Music
		The reason the dance fits zydeco music so well (and also is a little difficult to learn) is that one must learn to take steps at two different rates.
		Some zydeco dancers take a little step or just twist their foot on beat (2) and (6) to make sure they stay on the same foot for two beats (this is sometimes referred to as having to eat-a-beat, meaning to take up and extra beat before switching feet.
		I see a lot of zydeco dancers (some are also good swing dancers) dancing to zydeco, very subtle body movements but very much in groove their partners.
	www.zydecoach.com /zydecoinstr.htm (2580 words)

	AllRefer.com - zydeco (Music: History) - Encyclopedia
		Drawing on elements of traditional Cajun music as well as jazz, country and western, and blues, it is characterized by French lyrics, Creole flavor, and strong dance rhythms.
		Other instruments often included in a zydeco band are the guitar, electric bass, saxophone, drums, and "rubboard" (washboard).
		Among the genre's better known performers are Clifton Chenier (1925–87), zydeco's best-known musician; Wilson Anthony "Boozoo" Chavis; Rockin' Sidney; Buckwheat Zydeco; and Queen Ida Lewis.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Z/zydeco.html (191 words)

	A Brief History of Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco Music
		The music of the Acadians in Louisiana in the 19th century was transformed by new influences: African rhythms, blues, and improvisational singing techniques as well as by other rhythms and singing styles from Native Americans.
		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 accordion was tuned in keys that did not match the "open string" tuning of the fiddlers, it was not incorporated into Cajun music.
		In the 21st century, Zydeco fans throughout Southwest Louisiana continue to spend the weekend camping, dancing to the music of Zydeco bands, and riding on horseback or in wagons across the countryside on trailrides.
	www.lsue.edu /acadgate/music/history.htm (4321 words)

	2006 Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival
		In 1981 fearful that Creole and Zydeco music was dying out, “The Treasures of Opelousas” a group of concerned citizens under the guidance and sponsorship of Southern Development Foundation, organized the Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival.
		The first Zydeco Festival in 1982 was started on a farmer’s field in the Plaisance community on the outskirts of Opelousas, with four hundred of our neighbors attending.
		The Zydeco Music Festival is their offspring - a living reminder for us never to forget where we come from, to always appreciate and respect our past, and most of all to continue our legacy in keeping the rich culture alive.
	www.zydeco.org /history.php (421 words)

	Computerized Discography of Cajun and Zydeco Music: A Presentation
		This wonderful music is alive and vital today thanks to the hundreds of musicians who play it, the handful of small record companies that record it, and the thousands who make it part of their lives by listening to it in person and on recordings.
		Alan Lomax described the music of Poitou, the region in France most Acadians came from, as solo unaccompanied ballads, lyric songs with complex texts, unaccompanied air playing on fiddles and wind instruments, unison group performances of ceremonial songs, and dance orchestras where string and wind duos play tunes in unison or in an accompanying relationship.
		An explosion of zydeco music occurred in the late 1970s, fueled partly by the increased exposure of zydeco to America at large.
	www.loyno.edu /~hobbs/semla.html (5556 words)

	Cajun and Zydeco Music & Dance Resources World-wide Link Page - Right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		There is a network a diligent Cajun Zydeco Music and Dance personalities and organizations around the world that contribute to the promotion of Cajun and Zydeco music and dance by maintaining WEB sites for local, regional and extended information.
		Zydeco dance and band information of interest to residents of the Rochester NY area.
		Cascade Zydeco is a non profit organization based in Oregon, but with members in Washington as well, which is solely dedicated to promoting Zydeco and Cajun music and dance in the Northwest by sponsoring dances with live bands, and dance lessons.
	users.erols.com /ghayman/region.web.sites.right.htm (2601 words)

	African Genesis Presents: Zydeco Dance Music
		The word zydeco (also rendered zarico, zodico, zordico, and zologo) derives from the French expression les haricots, meaning "beans." Folk etymology holds that the genre obtained this name from the common Creole expression "Les haricots sont pas salés" ("The beans aren’t salty").
		Zydeco is a syncopated dance music played by Creole French speaking people of African descent who historically lived on the prairies of Southwest Louisiana.
		Some Zydeco songs are played by Cajun bands and some Cajun songs are played by Zydeco groups, but they are two different types of music.
	afgen.com /zydeco_definitions.html (805 words)

	LeeRon Zydeco - Avenue Two - Edu-tainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Roots music is the sound of common people using whatever resources they have on hand to express and entertain themselves within their community.
		the music of the backroads, borders and bayous...
		The music developed into its modern form in the rural South in the 1920s and is one of the building blocks of both jazz and rock.
	www.leeron.com /avetwo.htm (1015 words)

	Music Video & Books
		This is Zydeco Force ’s 6th album, who with founding members Jeffery Broussard and Robby Robinson, are one of the the few remaining traditional style Zydeco groups recording and touring today.
		The CD includes "Japanese Zydeco", which I thought was one of the musical highpoints of their Eagle's Hall show here in September.
		The recording is one of the most sophisticated zydeco recordings I have heard in a while and it has stood the test of repeated listening, as it was the only tape I had with me for three days of driving around SW Louisiana.
	www.sfbayou.com /Music&Books.htm (5385 words)

	CD Baby: CAPTAIN SQUEEZE AND THE ZYDECO MOSHERS: Bayou Party Downtown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Captain Squeeze and the Zydeco Moshers is "one of the most versatile zydeco bands in the country" (www.zydecoroad.com).
		Their practice of inviting members of the audience up on stage to play the rubboard with them was a genuine crowd pleaser and kept the party percolating all night as the band pumped out a barrage of two-steps, waltzes, and even made material by The Rolling Stones sound southern.
		Captain Squeeze and the Zydeco Moshers are: Greg (Captain Squeeze) Speck on accordion and vocals; Tim Keenan on bass; Brian Egan on drums; Justin Cross on guitar and Aleksen Speck orTroy Oechsner (when Alek is away at college) on rubboard.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/csatzm (739 words)

	Blues & Zydeco Music
		Mark is from the "Old School" and his brand of Zydeco Music is truly unique.
		His music is well known throughout Southern Louisiana and Northern and Southern California.
		Mark has pioneered and mastered the Zydeco Music with Clifton Chenier being his mentor.
	www.markstmary.com (141 words)

	Clarence's directory of sound files and MP3 clips of old Cajun and Zydeco music
		The first known recording containing the word "Zydeco" was the recording by "Jimmy Peters and The Ring Dance Singers" in 1934 as part of the historic Alan Lomax recordings.
		The first known recording containing the word "zydeco" was the song called "J'ai fait tout Le tour du pays" and was done in a Jure' (bluesy) style of chanting.
		Re-Releases of older Cajun and Zydeco on the German label Trikont You can listen to snippets of their Louisiana recordings at www.trikont.com but they don't sell directly to the U.S. To mail order their CD's in the U.S., you can get them from www.othermusic.com.
	www.cajunradio.org /listenold.html (1114 words)

	Origins of Zydeco and Cajun Music by Tom Dempsey
		Zydeco usually has no fiddle, and the music resonates with sounds from jazz, rhythm and blues, and more recently, hip hop.
		Zydeco dancing appears to be evolving from a couples dance towards individual free-style.
		Cajun Music and Zydeco, photographs by Philip Gould with an introduction by Barry Ancelet (Louisiana State University Press, 1992, $39.95).
	www.photoseek.com /LAusa.html (2038 words)

	The Zydeco Road Runs Right Through Long Island!
		Zydeco Joe Mouton is back with his follow-up CD to his 2001 debut release, “Jack Rabbit.” This time Joe is recording independently and he’s put together seven new tracks complete with that driving bass line and those incredible French Creole lyrics that he delivers so well.
		Dikki Du and The Zydeco Krewe have released their new CD entitled, “Straighten It Out.” The son of the legendary Roy Carrier and the brother of Chubby Carrier is truly a class act on his own now.
		Their music can beeasily danced to, or you can just kick back and enjoy listening to a group of regional Zydeco artists that know what they’re doing.
	www.zydecoroad.com (920 words)

	Amazon.com: Zydeco: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The feel and energy of a zydeco performance doesn't necessarily come across in the studio, and few of today's performers are particularly impressive songwriters.
		This CD plays like a who's who of Zydeco music, several tempos and song styles (waltz, two-step and blues, the main three rhythm patterns of zydeco music) are presented and all of the songs are truly classics.
		If you are a longstanding zydeco fan, you may well have most of these cuts on CDs you already own, so you could just make yourself a mix CD, but save yourself the trouble and pick this one up.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003OP0X?v=glance (1217 words)

	Zydeco Band Shreveport, LA - Caddo, Louisiana Zydeco Music, Shreveport Zydeco Bands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Here are the online press kits of 11 professional Shreveport zydeco bands and zydeco bands who will travel to Shreveport to perform at your event.
		Their shows are energizing and create a musical, mini-island vacation for people of all ages.
		We can cover a lot of musical territory from roots classic country to contemporary country to cajun and Tex mex....throw in a little classic rock and you have a great evening of entertainment....for your birthday,wedding,block party,or any fun occasion.
	www.gigmasters.com /zydeco/zydeco_shreveport_la.asp (791 words)

	Clarence's Top 40 songs - Louisiana Zydeco music and songs
		This is Clarence's list of the top 40 Zydeco songs and zydeco music.
		As a Cajun who has followed the music from my teenage years, I hope that this will provide newcomers to the Cajun and Zydeco scene with a starting point for searching out recordings.
		Some of the popular Zydeco musicians are Boozoo Chavis, Rockin' Sidney, Morris Francis, Fernest Arceneau, Beau Jocque, Clifton Chenier, John Delafose, Chris Ardoin, Double Clutchin', Rosie Ledet, Nathan and the Zydeco Chachas, Buckwheat Zydeco, Zydeco Force, Step Rideau, C.J. Chenier, Leroy Thomas and Lil Pookie.
	www.cajunradio.org /top40zydeco.html (505 words)

	New Orleans Music, Jazz Blues Zydeco Cajun Music, Louisiana Music Factory
		From Cajun music to blues, Zydeco music to R&B, traditional New Orleans jazz to modern jazz, and more.
		The Louisiana Music Factory, located in the New Orleans French Quarter, carries the widest selection of Louisiana and New Orleans Music on compact disc & vinyl records in the world.
		The Louisiana Music Factory specializes in Louisiana and New Orleans music, and has a wide selection of hard to get titles, as well as a large collection of rare vinyl recordings.
	www.louisianamusicfactory.com (338 words)

	Recommended Zydeco & Cajun Music
		Zesty Zydeco is also very good with several not too fast songs for practicing.
		Step Riddeau: Steppin' On: Zydeco Band of the Year 1998.
		Zydeco Joe: Jumpin' Jack Rabbit: His only CD.
	www.czdance.com /CajunCulture/recommendMusic.html (422 words)

	TABASCO® Music Stage- zydeco and cajun dance lessons online
		Cajun and Zydeco music is, first and foremost, dance music.
		At the many Louisiana festivals, in the friendly Cajun and Zydeco dance halls and in many Cajun restaurants, you can hear live music and watch energetic dancers.
		The two-step is a traditional partner dance performed to fast, spirited music with a 4/4 beat.
	www.tabasco.com /music_stage/dance_lessons/index.cfm (343 words)

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