Back Swamp pop French Swamp pop Frisian スワンプ・ポップ Japanese 스웜프 팝 Korean Swamppop Dutch Swamp pop Portuguese Свомп-поп Russian
| Swamp pop | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | 1950s, Acadiana region, Louisiana, United States |
Swamp pop is a music genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s by young Cajuns and Creoles, it combines New Orleans–style rhythm and blues, country and western, and traditional French Louisiana musical influences. Although a fairly obscure genre, swamp pop maintains a large audience in its south Louisiana and southeast Texas homeland, and it has acquired a small but passionate cult following in the United Kingdom, and Northern Europe[1]
- ^ Shane K. Bernard, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues (Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1996), pp. 5–6, 44.