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Rough
Guide to:
Cajun & Zydeco Music of the flat Louisiana prairies
Head
out of New Orleans along Highway 10 to Lafayette,
a mess of gas stations and advertising hoardings,
and you find yourself in the heart of Cajun
and zydeco country. The music tends to be sold
with images of alligators, swamps and spreading
cypress trees draped with Spanish moss, but
its home is not really the bayous, but the
flat Louisiana prairies where farmers grow
rice and cotton and farm crawfish.
'Cajun' culture
with its French roots, was originally based
in an region known as Acadia (now Nova Scotia)
in North America.
Sample
tracks
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a short sample in MP3 format.
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