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Swamp pop is a musical genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s and early 1960s by teenaged Cajuns and black Creoles it combines New Orleans-style rhythm and blues country and western and traditional French Louisiana musical influences.

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