Jure
Grandmother
Jure Interview with Mrs. Virginia Broussard Ballard
Grandmother
Jure Interview with Mrs. Virginia Broussard Ballard
Broussard Sisters of Opelousas, Louisiana
~The Broussard sisters of Opelousas, Louisiana performing Jure~
Not only did many of our dances emerge from the spiritual, but the spiritual is intertwined with the social. The spirit comes everywhere. It’s at the funeral. It’s at the house. It’s at the la la. It cannot be separated.
Jure is to testify. Jure music followed Bamboula. From Jure, came Zydeco (originally Lala). Jure music is comparable to Spirituals, but sung primarily in Kouri Vini (Louisiana “Creole”). They were often sung at funerals in the home, and involved call and response, dancing, stomps, and claps. People would also go from house to house performing Jure during the Lenten season.
“Jure is a genre of Louisiana Creole music that is Zydeco’s immediate ancestor, both as a sacred idiom and later as its secular music and dance cousin called Lala.”
--Greer Mendy
author of Black Dance in Louisiana: Guardian of a Culture
Jure is to testify. Jure music followed Bamboula. From Jure, came Zydeco (originally Lala). Jure music is comparable to Spirituals, but sung primarily in Kouri Vini (Louisiana “Creole”). They were often sung at funerals in the home, and involved call and response, dancing, stomps, and claps. People would also go from house to house performing Jure during the Lenten season.
“Jure is a genre of Louisiana Creole music that is Zydeco’s immediate ancestor, both as a sacred idiom and later as its secular music and dance cousin called Lala.”
--Greer Mendy
author of Black Dance in Louisiana: Guardian of a Culture