Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Zydeco
- Music genre.etymology
- From French ("the beans"), from a phrase used idiomatically to express hardship
- Music genre.other_names
- Zarico, zodigo, le musique Creole
- Music genre.image
- Buckwheat Zydeco and band performing at the Kitchener Blues Festival.jpg
- Music genre.caption
- Buckwheat Zydeco with accordion
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Early 20th century, Louisiana, U.S.
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- Instance of
- music genre
- Country of origin
- United States
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- topic's main category
- Category:Zydeco
- Commons category
- Zydeco
- inception
- 1936-01-01
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thumb|New Orleans Cajun-Zydeco Fest, 2019
Zydeco ( ; ) is a music genre that was created in rural Southwest Louisiana by French speaking African Americans of Creole heritage. It incorporates blues and rhythm and blues with music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles, such as la la and juré. The main instruments are accordion and rubboard (washboard) or vest frottoir.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “zydeco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.