Swamp Pop is a popular music genre shaped by the indigenous people of South Louisiana (the Acadian region) and the adjacent part of South East Texas. The swamp-pop ancestors were the Cajuns, who experimented with sound in the 1950s - early 1960s; the genre itself combines a new Orleans rhythm and blues country and traditional musical currents of French Louisiana. Although swamp-pop is a rather vague term, the genre has a large audience in its native regions, South Louisiana and southeastern Texas, this musical direction is also quite popular in the United Kingdom, Northern Europe and Japan.
