The Kingdom of Zydeco (ePub)
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"An important book for anyone with an interest in life, American music, Southern culture, dancing, accordions, the recording industry, folklore, old dance clubs in the weeds, fortune tellers, hoodoos or shotguns. -Annie Proulx
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"An important book for anyone with an interest in life, American music, Southern culture, dancing, accordions, the recording industry, folklore, old dance clubs in the weeds, fortune tellers, hoodoos or shotguns. -Annie Proulx
There's a musical kingdom in the American South that's not marked on any map. Stretching from the prairies of Louisiana to the oil towns of East Texas, it is ruled over accordion-squeezing, washboard-wielding musicians such as Buckwheat Zydeco, Nathan Williams, Keith Frank, Terrance Simien, Rosie Ledet, and C. J. Chenier. Theirs is the kingdom of zydeco. With its African-Caribbean rhythms, Creole-French-English lyrics, and lively dance styles, zydeco has spread from its origins in Louisiana across the nation, from Back Bay to the Bay Area. It has influenced the music of Eric Clapton and Paul Simon and been played at Carnegie Hall.
In this remarkable and engrossing book, Michael Tisserand reveals why zydeco's identifiable and unforgettable blend of blues and Cajun influences has made the dance music of Louisiana black Creoles so popular and widespread. Zydeco's appeal runs deeper than the feel-good, get-up-and-dance reaction it invariably elicits and is intertwined in the music's roots and rhythms, handed down from generation to generation. Here is the story of zydeco music. Tisserand goes on the zydeco trail to meet the major artists; he reconstructs the legends behind the music's beginnings, offering complete biographies of pioneers such as Amédé Ardoin and Clifton Chenier; and he takes you into the dance halls and onto the front porches where zydeco was born and continues to thrive. More than a book on a musical style, The Kingdom of Zydeco is an exploration and a celebration of a distinctive American culture.
There's a musical kingdom in the American South that's not marked on any map. Stretching from the prairies of Louisiana to the oil towns of East Texas, it is ruled over accordion-squeezing, washboard-wielding musicians such as Buckwheat Zydeco, Nathan Williams, Keith Frank, Terrance Simien, Rosie Ledet, and C. J. Chenier. Theirs is the kingdom of zydeco. With its African-Caribbean rhythms, Creole-French-English lyrics, and lively dance styles, zydeco has spread from its origins in Louisiana across the nation, from Back Bay to the Bay Area. It has influenced the music of Eric Clapton and Paul Simon and been played at Carnegie Hall.
In this remarkable and engrossing book, Michael Tisserand reveals why zydeco's identifiable and unforgettable blend of blues and Cajun influences has made the dance music of Louisiana black Creoles so popular and widespread. Zydeco's appeal runs deeper than the feel-good, get-up-and-dance reaction it invariably elicits and is intertwined in the music's roots and rhythms, handed down from generation to generation. Here is the story of zydeco music. Tisserand goes on the zydeco trail to meet the major artists; he reconstructs the legends behind the music's beginnings, offering complete biographies of pioneers such as Amédé Ardoin and Clifton Chenier; and he takes you into the dance halls and onto the front porches where zydeco was born and continues to thrive. More than a book on a musical style, The Kingdom of Zydeco is an exploration and a celebration of a distinctive American culture.
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Tisserand
Michael Tisserand's first book, The Kingdom of Zydeco, won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for music writing. He is also author of the Hurricane Katrina memoir Sugarcane Academy and the forthcoming biography Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.Buckwheat Zydeco is the stage name of Stanley Dural, Jr, an American accordionist and zydeco musician. His band, Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band, has performed with a large number of famous musicians from Eric Clapton (with whom he also recorded) and U2 to the Boston Pops, and they have appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, CNN, The Today Show, MTV, NBC News, CBS Morning News, and NPR's Weekend Edition.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Tisserand
- 2016, Proprietary, 416 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
- ISBN-10: 1628727993
- ISBN-13: 9781628727999
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2016
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“Michael Tisserand has given us a good one. The Kingdom of Zydeco is richly anecdotal, as moving and intimate as the music, a fine front-porch history of zydeco from the blackjack dirt farms of Louisiana to the oil refineries of coastal Texas. It is as much about human beings and Creole culture as music, about personal foibles, misadventure, white/black tensions, work and parties, trouble in the night, and truly extraordinary characters. The gritty, vibrant voices of the musicians—well-known, obscure, dead, living, recorded, unrecorded—give this work extraordinary vigor and juice . . . Somewhere in the book a father tells his musician son, ‘whatever you do, give the people a satisfaction.’ Michael Tisserand does that for the reader.” —Annie Proulx“The Kingdom of Zydeco beautifully captures the world of one of America’s most unique, fascinating, and rockin’ musical cultures. The definitive work on the subject.” —Bonnie Raitt
“Exhaustive . . . riveting . . . The Kingdom of Zydeco is a back-road trip well worth making.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“This is a wonderful book, a comprehensive and enthralling look at zydeco. . . . [Tisserand] communicates his love for the music and makes you want to hear it.” —David Nicholson, The Washington Post
“Beyond Tisserand’s clear, enjoyable writing and his agile translation of the riding rhythms into prose, it is his interviews that make this book truly special. These strings of quotes—presented uncorrected and full of colorful colloquialisms—are treasures, bits of living history grabbed just in time, in several cases, to preserve firsthand accounts of customs and people now gone.” —Clea Simon, The Boston Globe
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delightful geography of a people and place as untouched by Wal-Mart homogeneity as any in the nation.” —Craig Havighurst, The Wall Street Journal
“Tisserand delves into the music’s past and present in The Kingdom of Zydeco, one of the first in-depth histories of the sound and a well-researched, insightful introduction to the culture that spawned it.” —Lynn Van Matre, Chicago Tribune
“[Tisserand] certainly does justice to the complexity of the zydeco tradition. . . . This comprehensive assessment is a must for fans.” —Publishers Weekly
“Written in a style as lively as the music itself, journalist Tisserand’s book is recommended for all music libraries and is essential in Louisiana, East Texas, and everywhere else that zydeco is king.” —Library Journal
“Tisserand’s book is the gold mine. The product of years of research, interviews, and van, bus, and horse travel with zydecizers and their kin, Kingdom should do for the genre what Nick Tosches’s books have done for country and Peter Guralnik’s did for R&B and the blues.” —Arsenio Orteza, Village Voice
“The definitive book on zydeco. Michael Tisserand presents a historical overview of one of America’s last great regional musical cultures, then brings that history to life with vibrant profiles and immediate, on-the-spot reporting. Essential reading for zydeco fans as well as for anyone curious about how an indigenous musical form evolves.” —Keith Spera, New Orleans Times-Picayune
“A book that’s as readable as a novel while being a font of historical and cultural information.” —Ed Ward, Mojo magazine
“Tisserand delves into the music’s past and present in The Kingdom of Zydeco, one of the first in-depth histories of the sound and a well-researched, insightful introduction to the culture that spawned it.” —Lynn Van Matre, Chicago Tribune
“[Tisserand] certainly does justice to the complexity of the zydeco tradition. . . . This comprehensive assessment is a must for fans.” —Publishers Weekly
“Written in a style as lively as the music itself, journalist Tisserand’s book is recommended for all music libraries and is essential in Louisiana, East Texas, and everywhere else that zydeco is king.” —Library Journal
“Tisserand’s book is the gold mine. The product of years of research, interviews, and van, bus, and horse travel with zydecizers and their kin, Kingdom should do for the genre what Nick Tosches’s books have done for country and Peter Guralnik’s did for R&B and the blues.” —Arsenio Orteza, Village Voice
“The definitive book on zydeco. Michael Tisserand presents a historical overview of one of America’s last great regional musical cultures, then brings that history to life with vibrant profiles and immediate, on-the-spot reporting. Essential reading for zydeco fans as well as for anyone curious about how an indigenous musical form evolves.” —Keith Spera, New Orleans Times-Picayune
“A book that’s as readable as a novel while being a font of historical and cultural information.” —Ed Ward, Mojo magazine
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