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Author : Nicholas R. Spitzer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Louisiana Folklife written by Nicholas R. Spitzer and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Clegg Caffery
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080715203X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana written by Joshua Clegg Caffery and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934, his father John, then curator of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song, took an eighteen-year-old Alan and a 300-pound aluminum disk recorder into the rice fields of Jennings, along the waterways of New Iberia, and behind the gates of Angola State Penitentiary to collect vestiges of African American and Acadian musical tradition. These recordings now serve as the foundational document of indigenous Louisiana music. Although widely recognized by scholars as a key artifact in the understanding of American vernacular music, most of the recordings by John and Alan Lomax during their expedition across the central-southern fringe of Louisiana were never transcribed or translated, much less studied in depth. This volume presents, for the first time, a comprehensive examination of the 1934 corpus and unveils a multifaceted story of traditional song in one of the country's most culturally dynamic regions. Through his textual and comparative study of the songs contained in the Lomax collection, Joshua Clegg Caffery provides a musical history of Louisiana that extends beyond Cajun music and zydeco to the rural blues, Irish and English folk songs, play-party songs, slave spirituals, and traditional French folk songs that thrived at the time of these recordings. Intimate in its presentation of Louisiana folklife and broad in its historical scope, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana honors the legacy of John and Alan Lomax by retrieving these musical relics from obscurity and ensuring their understanding and appreciation for generations to come. Includes: Complete transcriptions of the 1934 Lomax field recordings in southwestern Louisiana Side-by-side translations from French to English Photographs from the 1934 field trip and biographical details about the performers
Author : Louisiana Folklife Program
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Keeping it Alive written by Louisiana Folklife Program and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcia G. Gaudet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Tales from the Levee written by Marcia G. Gaudet and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Clegg Caffery
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807161551
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book In the Creole Twilight written by Joshua Clegg Caffery and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caffery borrows from the syllabic structures, rhyme schemes, narratives, and settings that characterize Louisiana songs and tales to create new verse"--Dust jacket flap.
Author : Keagan LeJeune
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807162574
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Legendary Louisiana Outlaws written by Keagan LeJeune and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the infamous pirate Jean Laffite and the storied couple Bonnie and Clyde, to less familiar bandits like train-robber Eugene Bunch and suspected murderer Leather Britches Smith, Legendary Louisiana Outlaws explores Louisiana's most fascinating fugitives. In this entertaining volume, Keagan LeJeune draws from historical accounts and current folklore to examine the specific moments and legal climate that spawned these memorable characters. He shows how Laffite embodied Louisiana's shift from an entrenched French and Spanish legal system to an American one, and relates how the notorious groups like the West and Kimbrell Clan served as community leaders and law officers but covertly preyed on Louisiana's Neutral Strip residents until citizens took the law into their own hands. Likewise, the bootlegging Dunn brothers in Vinton, he explains, demonstrate folk justice's distinction between an acceptable criminal act (operating an illegal moonshine still) and an unacceptable one (cold-blooded murder). Recounting each outlaw's life, LeJeune also considers their motives for breaking the law as well as their attempts at evading capture. Running from authorities and trying to escape imprisonment or even death, these men and women often relied on the support of ordinary citizens, sympathetic in the face of oppressive and unfair laws. Through the lens of folk life, LeJeune's engaging narrative demonstrates how a justice system functions and changes and highlights Louisiana's particular challenges in adapting a system of law and order to work for everyone.
Author : Malcolm Comeaux
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Louisiana Folklife written by Malcolm Comeaux and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Louisiana Folklore Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erna Brodber
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617037269
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Louisiana written by Erna Brodber and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking the living and the dead, a brilliant novel imbued with the magic of hoodoo and conjuring
Author : Robert B. Caldwell
Publisher : Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781622880997
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Choctaw-Apache Foodways written by Robert B. Caldwell and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Choctaw-Apache Foodways" explores the rich and complex food history and culture of the Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb in western Louisiana.
Author : Lindahl, Carl
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736755
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Swapping Stories written by Lindahl, Carl and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state. Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions. Given special focus are Harold Talbert, Lonnie Gray, Bel Abbey, Ben Guiné, and Enola Matthews--whose wealth of imagination, memory, and artistry demonstrates the depth as well as the breadth of the storyteller's craft. For tales told in Cajun and Creole French, Koasati, and Spanish, the editors have supplied both the original language and English translation. To the volume Maida Owens has contributed an overview of Louisiana's folk culture and a survey of folklife studies of various regions of the state. Car Lindahl's introduction and notes discuss the various genres and styles of storytelling common in Louisiana and link them with the worldwide are of the folktale.
Author : Barry Jean Ancelet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604736178
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Cajun Country written by Barry Jean Ancelet and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book is by far the broadest examination of traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It goes beyond the stereotypes and surface treatment given to Cajuns by the popular media and examines the great variety of cultural elements alive in Cajun culture today--cooking, music, storytelling, architecture, arts and crafts, and festivals, as well as traditional occupations such as fishing, hunting, and trapping. It not only gives fascinating descriptions of elements in Cajun life that have been woven into the fabric of American history and folklore; it also explains how they came to be. Cajun Country reveals the historical background of the Cajun people, who migrated to Louisiana as exiles from their Canadian homeland, and it shows their folklife as a living and ongoing legacy that enriches America.
Author : Shane K. Bernard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800923
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Cajuns written by Shane K. Bernard and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll and television crackled across Louisiana airwaves, Cajun music makers responded with their own distinct versions. In the 1960s, empowerment and liberation movements turned the South upside down. During the 1980s, as things Cajun became an absorbing national fad, “Cajun” became a kind of brand identity used for selling everything from swamp tours to boxed rice dinners. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the advent of a new information age launched “Cyber-Cajuns” onto a worldwide web. All these forces have pushed and pulled at the fabric of Cajun life but have not destroyed it. A Cajun himself, the author of this book has an intense personal fascination in his people. By linking seemingly local events in the Cajuns' once isolated south Louisiana homeland to national and even global events, Bernard demonstrates that by the middle of the twentieth century the Cajuns for the first time in their ethnic story were engulfed in the currents of mainstream American life and yet continued to make outstandingly distinct contributions.
Author : Louisiana Folklife Program
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Louisiana Folklife Festival written by Louisiana Folklife Program and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Paige Gutierrez
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628467770
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Cajun Foodways written by C. Paige Gutierrez and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cajun food has become a popular “ethnic” food throughout America during the last decade. This fascinating book explores the significance of Cajun cookery on its home turf in south Louisiana, a region marked by startling juxtapositions of the new and the old, the nationally standard and the locally unique. Neither a cookbook nor a restaurant guide, Cajun Foodways gives interpretation to the meaning of traditional Cajun food from the perspective of folklife studies and cultural anthropology. The author takes into account the modern regional popular culture in examining traditional foodways of the Cajuns. Cajuns' attention to their own traditional foodways is more than merely nostalgia or a clever marketing ploy to lure tourists and sell local products. The symbolic power of Cajun food is deeply rooted in Cajuns' ethnic identity, especially their attachments to their natural environment and their love of being with people. Foodways are an effective symbol for what it means to be a Cajun today. The reader interested in food and in cooking will find much appeal in this book, for it illustrates a new way to think about how and why people eat as they do.
Author : Lorraine P. Gendron
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Lorraine Gendron written by Lorraine P. Gendron and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extensive treatment of the Hahnville, La.-based artist Lorraine Gendron, whose Mississippi River mud sculptures, painted wood cutouts, acrylic-on-wood paintings, and primitive dolls are treasured by collectors from around the world.
Author : Marcia G. Gaudet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604736038
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Carville written by Marcia G. Gaudet and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004-12-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal accounts of life in America's last colony for sufferers of Hansen's disease
