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Sterling Accordion

Cajun & Creole Instruments: Accordion

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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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Clifton Chenier

Zydeco Music

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Zydeco is a continuously evolving Louisiana music genre that blends elements of many Black American folk and pop styles, including blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, jazz, rock and roll, soul, funk, hip-hop, and rap. Though scholars surmise that zydeco contains deeper historical roots in West African…

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