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2008 30 min. Color
Black Creoles from southwest Louisiana began moving into southeast Texas in search of better jobs during the first half of the twentieth century. As they resettled, so did their music. This documentary film produced by Houston Community College Central College, based on the book of the same name by Roger Wood, Ph.D. and photographer James Fraher, describes how, over the course of several generations, the zydeco people of southeast Texas have defined themselves as a uniquely proud and vibrant community encompassing musicians and fans, dancers and promoters, young and old. Blending their respect for black Creole cultural traditions with an open-minded enthusiam for musical innovation, they have crafted a potent, still-evolving soundtrack to life on the upper Gulf Coast. According to Dr. Wood, as the new players traveled back and forth between Houston and Lafayette, they spread the new sound along a "zydeco corridor" that is the musical axis around which zydeco revolves to this day.
Texas Zydeco (Louisiana Premiere)
Ruben Duran, Donna Pinnick, Producers/Directors2008 30 min. Color
Black Creoles from southwest Louisiana began moving into southeast Texas in search of better jobs during the first half of the twentieth century. As they resettled, so did their music. This documentary film produced by Houston Community College Central College, based on the book of the same name by Roger Wood, Ph.D. and photographer James Fraher, describes how, over the course of several generations, the zydeco people of southeast Texas have defined themselves as a uniquely proud and vibrant community encompassing musicians and fans, dancers and promoters, young and old. Blending their respect for black Creole cultural traditions with an open-minded enthusiam for musical innovation, they have crafted a potent, still-evolving soundtrack to life on the upper Gulf Coast. According to Dr. Wood, as the new players traveled back and forth between Houston and Lafayette, they spread the new sound along a "zydeco corridor" that is the musical axis around which zydeco revolves to this day.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:45 PM
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