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Zydeco!Ben Samdel
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Zydeco!

189 pagesFirst published 19991 edition
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On Saturday nights in Southwest Louisiana working men and women exchange their work clothes for plumed Stetsons and fancy dresses and converge on rural road houses for an infusion of zydeco - the exuberant dance music of Louisiana's black Creole community. In eighty portraits of the genre's leading people and places and through extensive interviews and historical commentary, photographer Rick Olivier and journalist - musician Ben Sandmel have created a book as spirited as the rollicking music it so vividly illuminates. Once an obscure regional tradition, zydeco now enjoys worldwide…

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  • Other · English · 1999
    University Press of Mississippi · 189 pages · 9781578061150
Zydeco musicHistory and criticismZydeco musiciansPortraits