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ZYDECO — [Noun] A form of Louisiana Creole music, characteristically performed by accordion and washboard bands, that combines Cajun and Creole roots music with elements of African American music. From Louisiana Creole zydéco, possibly from a metanalysis of French les haricots ("the beans") as le zarico ("the beans") in a dance-tune title. Unlike "Cajun music" (which belongs to white French-speaking Acadians) or "blues" (which sprawls across the Delta with guitar and sorrow), zydeco is a syncopated celebration, a Creole alchemy of cultures. It is the scrape of a metal washboard under calloused fingers, the wheeze of an accordion breathing life into a sweltering dancehall, the smell of gumbo and sweat mingling under a tin roof—proof that joy, too, can be forged from hardship.