The Journal of Southern History, November 1st, 2007
Texas Zydeco. By Roger Wood. Photography by James Fraher. Brad and Michèle Moore Roots Music Series. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 323. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-292-71258-4.) This book argues that southeast Texas is the innovative heart of a "zydeco corridor" that stretches from Houston to southwestern Louisiana (p. 8). The engaging narrative by Roger Wood and the striking photos by James Fraher work together to prove "that the phrase Texas zydeco' is not an oxymoron but a cultural fact" (p. 8). While Wood richly describes the distinctive social context and racially mixed cultu...
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