Title: Zydeco! /
Authors: Olivier, Rick; Sandmel, Ben.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Zydeco music History and criticism.; Zydeco musicians Louisiana Portraits.
Abstract: "On Saturday nights in Southwest Louisiana working men and women exchange their work clothes for plumed Stetsons and fancy dresses and converge on rural road houses for an infusion of zydeco - the exuberant dance music of Louisiana's black Creole community."--BOOK JACKET. "In eighty portraits of the genre's leading people and places and through extensive interviews and historical commentary, photographer Rick Olivier and journalist - musician Ben Sandmel have created a book as spirited as the rollicking music it so vividly illuminates."--BOOK JACKET. "Once an obscure regional tradition, zydeco now enjoys worldwide popularity. In this book, two respected veteran observers draw on more than thirty years of combined professional experience to explore zydeco's rural roots and trace its emergence on the global stage. Through Olivier's innovative use of lighting and Sandmel's skill as an interviewer, zydeco irons such as Clifton Chenier, Boozoo Chavis, and Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural guide readers through their music, its complex cultural context, and the unbounded joy they find in performing."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Allons au Zydeco : the place and the people -- The emergence of Zydeco: Clifton Chenier : "they call me the king" -- The world of rural Zydeco : Boozoo Chavis : Creole cowboy -- Gallery of photographs -- Celebrating Creole identity : Buckwheat Dural : mainstream ambassador -- A Zydeco odyssey : Warren Caesar's long journey home -- Urbane Zydeco : Lynn August : "I like a challenge" -- The contemporary spectrum : there's room for us all.