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--
Opelousas Louisiana is the birth place of Zydeco music.
I love to dance to that
red hot, foot stompin' Zydeco music!