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- Title
CREOLE COMMUNITY AND "MASS" COMMUNICATION: HOUSTON ZYDECO AS A MEDIATED TRADITION.
- Authors
Minton, John
- Abstract
This article reports that for the uninitiated, zydeco is most simply described as a combination of Louisiana French accordion, Afro-Caribbean rhythms and African American urban blues, performed by and primarily for, the black Creoles of southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas. Notwithstanding its roots in older rural traditions, the genre as currently recognized and popularly acclaimed represents a relatively recent folk and popular syncretism forged in urban, semi-professional performance venues such as the neighborhood taverns and Catholic halls of Houston's Frenchtown district, an enclave attesting to the ongoing rural-to-urban migration of twentieth-century Creoles.
- Subjects
ZYDECO music; CREOLES; ZYDECO musicians; ACCORDION; BLUES music; POPULAR music
- Publication
Journal of Folklore Research, 1995, Vol 32, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0737-7037
- Publication type
Article