Music genre originating amongst the Creole or Cajun peoples in and of Louisiana
Swamp pop
Stylistic origins
Cajun music
New Orleans rhythm and blues
country
rock and roll
rockabilly
zydeco
Cultural origins
1950s, Acadiana region, Louisiana, United States
Swamp pop is a music genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s by young Cajuns and Creoles, it combines New Orleans–style rhythm and blues, country and western, and traditional French Louisiana musical influences. Although a fairly obscure genre, swamp pop maintains a large audience in its south Louisiana and southeast Texas homeland, and it has acquired a small but passionate cult following in the United Kingdom, and Northern Europe[1]
^Shane K. Bernard, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues (Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1996), pp. 5–6, 44.
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