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Swamp pop

Music genre
NameSwamp pop
Stylistic originsCajun music
Creole music
Rock and roll
New Orleans R&B
Zydeco music
Swamp blues
Country and western
Cultural origins1950s; Acadiana region
Typical instrumentsPiano • Drums • Vocals • Electric guitar • Bass guitarSaxophone
Mainstream popularityLate 1950s to mid-1960s; Medium

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Swamp pop is a musical genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s and early 1960s by teenaged Cajuns and black 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, northern Europe, and Japan.


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