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Twistin' at the Fais Do-Do: The Roots of South Louisiana's Swamp Pop Music

Twistin' at the Fais Do-Do: The Roots of South Louisiana's Swamp Pop Music Twistin' at the Fais Do-Do: The Roots of South Louisiana's Swamp Pop Music Shane K. Bernard Southern Cultures, Volume 2, Number 3/4, 1996, pp. 315-328 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1996.0038 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424285/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:05 GMT from JHU Libraries Essay Twistin' at the Fais Do-Do: The Roots of South Louisiana's Swamp Pop Music by Shane K. Bernard 77ns article is an overview of the author's book, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues, published by University Press ofMississippi. The book was issued in early September with an accompanying 14-track CD ofclassic swamp pop recordings. Swamp pop music is a rhythm and blues idiom that combines elements of New Orleans rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music. Highly emotional, colorful lyrics, tripleting honky-tonk pianos, bellow- ing horn sections, and a strong rhythm and blues backbeat typify the genre's sound. Swamp pop standards include such national hits as Bobby Charles's "Later Alligator," Dale and Grace's "I'm Leaving It Up to You," Freddy Fender's "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," Phil Phillips's "Sea of Love," and Jimmy Clanton's "Just a Dream." In http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Twistin' at the Fais Do-Do: The Roots of South Louisiana's Swamp Pop Music

Southern Cultures , Volume 2 (3) – Jan 4, 2012

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Twistin' at the Fais Do-Do: The Roots of South Louisiana's Swamp Pop Music Shane K. Bernard Southern Cultures, Volume 2, Number 3/4, 1996, pp. 315-328 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1996.0038 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424285/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:05 GMT from JHU Libraries Essay Twistin' at the Fais Do-Do: The Roots of South Louisiana's Swamp Pop Music by Shane K. Bernard 77ns article is an overview of the author's book, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues, published by University Press ofMississippi. The book was issued in early September with an accompanying 14-track CD ofclassic swamp pop recordings. Swamp pop music is a rhythm and blues idiom that combines elements of New Orleans rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music. Highly emotional, colorful lyrics, tripleting honky-tonk pianos, bellow- ing horn sections, and a strong rhythm and blues backbeat typify the genre's sound. Swamp pop standards include such national hits as Bobby Charles's "Later Alligator," Dale and Grace's "I'm Leaving It Up to You," Freddy Fender's "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," Phil Phillips's "Sea of Love," and Jimmy Clanton's "Just a Dream." In

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