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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 .
- Creole language
A Guadeloupe Creole sign stating Lévé pié aw / Ni ti moun ka...
- English-based creole languages
An English-based creole language (often shortened to English...
- Creole language
A Haitian Creole speaker, recorded in the United States. Haitian Creole (/ ˈ h eɪ ʃ ən ˈ k r iː oʊ l /; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl a.i.sjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the ...
- 12 million (2022)
- Haiti
- French Creole, Circum-Caribbean FrenchHaitian Creole
t. e. 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. It blends blues and rhythm and blues with music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles such as la la and juré, using the French ...
- Zarico, zodigo, le musique Creole
- Early 20th century, Louisiana
- Piano accordion, Cajun accordion, washboard, electric bass, electric guitar, drum set
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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 4.7 million 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, and ...
This association obscures Creole fiddle‘s unique musical and cultural history. The Creole fiddle, and its contemporary moniker zydeco fiddle, arrived in South Louisiana in the seventeenth century, coming ashore with French-speaking Africans from Saint-Domingue, now Haiti. As both slaves and free people of color, African Americans contributed ...
