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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 .
Characteristics. Origin of term. Early history. Post-war history. References. Zydeco. New Orleans Cajun-Zydeco Fest, 2019. Zydeco ( / ˈzaɪdɪˌkoʊ, - diː -/ ZY-dih-koh, -dee-; French: Zarico) is a music genre that was created in rural Southwest Louisiana by Afro-Americans of Creole heritage.
Creole music. Indigenous mus. of Lat. Amer. Has distinctive rhythms, and melodies often acc. by a short bass phrase much repeated with slight changes. The castanets are used. Source for information on Creole music: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music dictionary.
Belizean Creole (Belizean Creole: Belize Kriol, Kriol) is an English-based creole language spoken by the Belizean Creole people. It is closely related to Miskito Coastal Creole , San Andrés-Providencia Creole , and Jamaican Patois .
Louisiana Creole is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the US state of Louisiana. [4] Also known as Kouri-Vini, [1] it is spoken today by people who may racially identify as white, black, mixed ...
A creole language, [2] [3] [4] or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often, a pidgin ), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period. [5]
French and Creole in the nineteenth century: The transformation of the linguistic landscape; Decades of decline; A French renaissance in Louisiana; What is Louisiana (“Cajun”) French? What is Louisiana Creole? Language, ethnicity, and labels: Who speaks what?
