Zydeco
Music is a unique form of musical expression that originated in rural southwest Louisiana. Locally known as "la la"
music, Zydeco
music was formed and forged in a time best forgotten--a time when African-Americans had to struggle in the fields from sunup to sundown as sharecroppers so that their children might reap a better life.
It was these backbreaking hard times that help to define one of the most vibrant and successful musical traditions in the world. The phrase "Zydeco sont pas sale'" means "The snapbeans are not
Salty" in Creole French, and the
music draws upon French, Creole, West African, Cajun, Caribbean, and
R & B musical traditions. Zydeco Music is characterized by the use of the accordion, spoons, scrubboard, fiddle and triangle.
--from ZydecoOnline.com--