Talk:Zydeco

message: This article can be better organized, grammatically improved and should cite more source. Aaron charles (talk) 15:51, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed; I have reduced the excessive Lead section, created new sections/ headings and have started on the bare URL issue.--Soulparadox 07:41, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
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message: It is very briefly mentioned but its significance is downplayed.
I am leaving for England today, so don't have time to get into this article, but someone might want to check out the book Acadian Driftwood. 
This book provides the history of Acadian and Cajun music from pre-expulsion to the revival of this music today, written by Paul-Emile Comeau, a direct descendant of the original French settlers and the premier historian of Acadian and Cajun music. He has written the National Geographic and Rough Guide encyclopedia entries for Acadian, Cajun, and Zydeco music. He has produced a 13-part series called the Connexion Acadiene for CBC radio and NPR.
In August 2014 at the Congres Mondial Acadien, the Acadian communities in Canada and the United States will commemorate the Grand Derangement (Expulsion) in 1755 when they were transported, under great duress, from their homes in Acadia to Louisiana. The Acadians were emigrants from France who settled in the Acadia region ( New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Maine) and built a rich culture there until the British expelled them during the French and Indian Wars. Their homes were burned, family members were separated, and they were scattered along the Eastern Seaboard, with the majority resettling in Louisiana, near Lafayette. Here the Acadians became Cajuns, developing their own language and a lively musical culture that evolved into Zydeco. The expulsion became the basis for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow s legendary poem, Evangeline and for the song Acadian Driftwood, written by Robbie Robertson and performed by The Band. American Songwriter magazine called Acadian Driftwood a masterpiece of Acadian music. https://books.google.ca/books?id=HTP8ngEACAAJ&dq=acadian+driftwood+comeau&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyk4CEyLfbAhUs7IMKHeHsD8AQ6AEIKTAA
Peter K Burian (talk) 13:14, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inadequate coverage of Acadian music in this article  

message: In the fairly new book, "Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City" (American Crossroads Book 41)
Tyina L. Steptoe, the well-researched claim is that zydeco began in Houston's 5th ward, and spread to Lousiana from there. 
"Yet for Mack McCormick, the man who first used the word zydeco, the name referred to music from Fifth Ward. Over the years, McCormick began to resent efforts by the state of Louisiana to apply zydeco to music that developed east of the Sabine River. He created the modern spelling of zydeco in Frenchtown, and he intended the name to refer to that place. “When I’m talking about zydeco,” he wrote, “I’m talking about the music of Frenchtown . . . and the people who usurped that . . . were the Louisiana tourist commissions. . . . Louisiana’s very big on tourists, so when they put out a map that says rice country, zydeco country, jazz country, and they send three million copies of the map, it’s over.”  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alankjackson (talk • contribs) 21:09, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different source says Zydeco began in Houston