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The music of Louisiana can be divided into three general regions: rural south Louisiana, home to Creole Zydeco and Old French (now known as cajun music), New Orleans, and north Louisiana. The region in and around Greater New Orleans has a unique musical heritage tied to Dixieland jazz, blues , and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
Although they are two separate genres, Cajun music is often mentioned in tandem with the Creole-based zydeco music. Both are from southwest Louisiana and share French and African origins. [2] These French Louisiana sounds have influenced American popular music for many decades, especially country music, and have influenced pop culture through ...
Afro-American Folksongs (1915) [8] Six Creole Folk-Songs (1921) [9] Bayou Ballads: Twelve Folk-Songs from Louisiana (1921); [10] texts and music collected by Mina Monroe, edited with the collaboration of Kurt Schindler. In the introduction, Monroe (who was born Marie Thereze Bernard in New Orleans, September 2, 1886), offers these insights:
By the mid-to-late 1930s, a large influx of English speaking people came for the oil fields in Southwest Louisiana. Also, a large migration of French speaking Cajuns expanded to Texas. It was common for performers to sing in both French and English and borrow heavily from the popular country music and Texas swing music on the radio.
The music of New Orleans assumes various styles of music which have often borrowed from earlier traditions. New Orleans , Louisiana , is especially known for its strong association with jazz music , universally considered to be the birthplace of the genre.
African American; Anglo-American; White Australian; Cajun and Louisiana Creole; Caribbean-British; Immigrants to Australia; Immigrants to the United States; Indian-British; Indo-Caribbean; Irish- and Scottish-Canadian; Irish- and Scottish-American; Latino-American; Tex-Mex and Tejano
performance group that has been "extraordinarily influential" in Croatian American music, and has had a "crucial role in the formation of many 'junior tamburitza' societies" [20] Tamburitza Association of America: Tamburitza Extravaganza: Center for World Music: American Society for Eastern Arts (ASEA) Founded by Robert E. Brown, Sam and Louise ...
Louisiana blues is a genre of blues music that developed in the period after World War II in the state of Louisiana. It is generally divided into two major subgenres, with the jazz-influenced New Orleans blues based on the musical traditions of that city and the slower tempo swamp blues incorporating influences from zydeco and Cajun music from around Baton Rouge.