Both Louisiana and New Jersey have shaped different branches of a broad U.S. musical tradition. In Louisiana, Cajun music grew from the ballads of French-speaking Acadians who were pushed out of Canada in the 1700s. In New Jersey, the sounds came from German, Dutch, and Swiss immigrants in the Northeast. Which music tradition links the two states?

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American folk music. Louisiana contributed Cajun music, rooted in the ballads of French-speaking Acadians from Canada, and these sounds have shaped U.S. popular music for decades. New Jersey's folk sounds, like those of New England, carried a strong German, Dutch, and Swiss immigrant stamp.