51 (D-11) More music: zydeco / Quiz 4

Yes, MORE music.  We can't forget zydeco.

What is zydeco?  
Zydeco is a type of popular music that developed from the Cajun and Black populations of Louisiana bayou country, starting during the years 1955-1960.  It combines traditional Cajun dance melodies and rhythms and French lyrics along with blues and rock influences.  The instruments used are the accordion, the fiddle and the rubboard. It was the King of Zydeco Clifton Chenier who redesigned the washboard by making it an instrument that could easily hang from the shoulders (vest frottoir).

Why is this music called "zydeco"?  One possible origin is from the French expression "Les haricots ne sont pas salés", meaning "the snap beans aren't salty" or idiomatically "I have no spicy news for you."  Or possibly it means "I'm so poor that I can't afford any salty meat for the beans." Or others suggest that the word comes from a combination of Native American (Atakapa tribe) and African slaves which was then transformed when the Spanish pronounced it!!! Or other researchers suggest that it may have African origins.

Listen to Clifton Chenier's "Jolie Blonde" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yteXz_J1Nlk
Then go back to the Cajun music version (Day 49 D-13, two days ago) to compare zydeco and Cajun music.

I like Queen Ida also.
Please listen to Hello Joséphine. It's in English and in French!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG7kJywfGgg
She does Jambalaya too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c0pH4iYLcA

One more:  again Clifton Chenier, to finish with more Jambalaya:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfuOet2mDRM

Musically yours, 
Jane

PS.  If you don't have time for all of this music now, do come back at another time to listen. 
Louisiana is music!
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-snap beans = green beans, string beans or wax beans (yellow)
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QUIZ 4
1.  What is the "holy trinity" in Cajun and Creole cuisine?
2.  What is "Gumbo"?
3.  Why is The Cabildo an important historical building in New Orleans?
4. What famous French impressionist painter, whose mother was Creole, came in 1872 to New Orleans; he painted A Cotton Office in New Orleans in 1873?
5.  If you like, go back and listen to the the accents of New Orleans in Post 19.  Do you understand them better after nearly 2 months "traveling" in Louisiana?

If not in your head, you can find the answers to these questions at Posts 15 - 19.