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Creole music

The term Creole music (French: musique créole) is used to refer to two distinct musical traditions: art songs adapted from 19th-century vernacular music; or the vernacular traditions of Louisiana Creole people which have persisted as 20th- and 21st-century la la and zydeco in addition to influencing Cajun music.

See also: Creolization § Music

Creole music of Louisiana

Musique créole

18th – 19th centuries, Louisiana

Slave Songs of the United States (1867) the earliest known compilation; 7 unaccompanied melodies with words.

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Creole Songs from New Orleans in the Negro-Dialect (1902)

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Notes d'ethnographie musicale - La Musique chez les peuples indegenes de l'Amerique du Nord, (1910); this scholarly work by contains several Creole folk songs not found elsewhere, notably "Chanson nègre de la Louisiane" obtained from Professor Alcée Fortier.

Julien Tiersot

Afro-American Folksongs (1915)

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Six Creole Folk-Songs (1921)

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Bayou Ballads: Twelve Folk-Songs from Louisiana (1921); texts and music collected by Mina Monroe, edited with the collaboration of Kurt Schindler. In the introduction, Monroe (who was born Marie Thereze Bernard in New Orleans, September 2, 1886), offers these insights:

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accordionist and vocalist

Chris Ardoin

and the Creole Cowboys

Jeffery Broussard

accordionist and vocalist

Geno Delafose

accordionist and vocalist

Keith Frank

guitarist and fiddler

D'Jalma Garnier

accordionist and vocalist

Joe Hall

accordionist and vocalist

Beau Jocque

Mitch Reed, fiddler

fiddler, accordionist, and vocalist

Cedric Watson

Current practitioners of Creole music, including la la and/or zydeco, include:


An organization working to sustain Creole music since 1988 is C.R.E.O.L.E., Inc., based in Lafayette, Louisiana.[14][16]

Shane K. Bernard, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, 1996. (Mentions black Creole music, but not Creole folk songs.)

Florence E. Borders, "Researching Creole and Cajun Musics in New Orleans", Black Music Research Journal, vol. 8, no. 1 (1988) 15-31.

George W. Cable, "The Dance in Place Congo", Century Magazine vol. 31, Feb., 1886, pp. 517–532.

Doris E. McGinty and Camille Nickerson, "The Louisiana Lady", The Black Perspective in Music, vo. 7, no. 1 (Spring, 1979) 81-94.

Camille Nickerson, Africo-Creole Music in Louisiana; a thesis on the plantation songs created by the Creole negroes of Louisiana, Oberlin College, 1932.

James E. Perone, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, a Bio-Bibliography, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 2002.

Dorothy Scarborough, On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs, Harvard University Press, 1925.

S. Frederick Starr, Bamboula! The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Julien Tiersot, "Notes d'ethnographie musicale: La Musique chez les peuples indigenes de l'Amerique du Nord", Sämmelbande der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft 11 (1910) 141-231. Melodies only, with musicological notes.

Julien Tiersot, Chansons Nègres, Heugel, Paris, 1933.

Ching Veillon, Creole Music Man: Bois Sec Ardoin, Xlibris, 2003.

Zydeco: Creole Music and Culture in Rural Louisiana

Canray Fontenot - Les Barres De La Prison with interview

Hommage à Amédé Ardoin - Musique créole accordéon diatonique

Sean and Chris Ardoin - Creole memories of Bois Sec and Amédé Ardoin

Queen Ida and The Bon Temps Zydeco Band - Rosa Majeur

from Louisiana State University Eunice.

Contemporary Louisiana Cajun, Creole and Zydeco Musicians

George Washington Cable's article in The Century Magazine, February 1886.

Creole Songs Cable Sang

Historical Notes for African-American and Jamaican Melodies

Zydeco Online

Creole Radio

in The Handbook of Texas.

Zydeco

C.R.E.O.L.E., Inc.

Creole Magazine