Research Catalog

Title

• Swamp pop : Cajun and Creole rhythm and blues / Shane K. Bernard.

Author

Bernard, Shane K.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1996.

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Description

xvii, 264 p. : ill.; 24 cm. +

Summary

• Bernard, son of the notable swamp-pop musician Rod Bernard, uncovers the history of this hybrid form invented in the 1950s by teenage Cajuns and black Creoles. Putting aside the fiddle and accordion of their parents' traditional French music to learn the electric guitar and bass, saxophone, upright piano, and modern drumming trap sets of big-city rhythm-and-blues, they created a spicy new music that arises from the bayou country.
• Here is the exciting story of swamp pop, a form of Louisiana music more recognized by its practitioners and their hits than by a definition. Drawing on more than fifty interviews with swamp-pop musicians in south Louisiana and southeast Texas, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues finds the roots of this often overlooked, sometimes derided sister genre of the wildly popular Cajun and zydeco music. In this first book to be devoted entirely to swamp pop, Shane K.

Series Statement

• American made music series

Uniform Title

• African American music reference
• American made music series

Subject

Swamp pop music > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-243), discographies, and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Carl A. Brasseaux -- Louisiana Saturday night : an introduction -- Who named it swamp pop and what is it? -- The sound of swamp pop -- The birth of swamp pop music -- Cajun and black Creole elements in swamp pop music -- The future of swamp pop -- Case studies. Huey "Cookie" Thierry ; King Karl and Guitar Gable ; Bobby Charles ; Warren Storm ; Rod Bernard ; Johnnie Allan ; Gene Terry ; Joe Barry ; Benny Graeff -- Swamp Pop Timeline and Discography.

ISBN

• 0878058753 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0878058761 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95053231^/MN

OCLC

34080195

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library