A relatively recent invention, the bellows-driven, vibrating reed squeezebox known as the accordion, was first manufactured in Germany and later in Russia in the 1820s. It is unknown who brought the first accordion to South Louisiana or which French Creole or Acadian first played the instrument, but…
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An early 20th-century precursor to zydeco, la-la music melds indigenous American, African, European, blues, nascent rhythm and blues, and Louisiana Creole and Cajun traditions to form a popular genre that is both provincial and unmeasurably influential. Primarily associated with Black Creoles of…
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A bowed string instrument, the fiddle is central to the sound, culture, and history of Cajun music…
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