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DIVPresents the complex and conflicting views of Cajun cultural heritage, identities, and their manifestation in musical and dance expression./div
Author : Charles J. Stivale
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822330202
DIVPresents the complex and conflicting views of Cajun cultural heritage, identities, and their manifestation in musical and dance expression./div
Author : Charles J. Stivale
Publisher :
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cajun music
ISBN : 9786612920806
Presents the complex and conflicting views of Cajun cultural heritage, identities, and their manifestation in musical and dance expression.
Author : Maria Hebert-Leiter
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807136133
Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, presents an excellent and unique introduction to American Acadian and Cajun literature, exploring how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over the past 150 years. Beginning with Henry Wadsworth Longfellows poem Evangeline and the writings of George Washington Cable, Hebert-Leiter examination includes the fiction of Kate Chopin and Ernest Gaines, James Lee Burkes Dave Robicheaux detective novels, and additional writings by Ada Jack Carver, Elma Godchaux, Shirley Ann Grau, and others. Representations of the Acadian in literature reflect the Acadians path towards assimilation. Combining her study of Acadian literary history with an examination of Acadian ethnic history, the author offers insight into the Americanization process experienced by the Acadians, who came to be known as Cajuns during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : Jonathan K. Gosnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803285272
"A study of the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, particularly New England and southern Louisiana"--
Author : Patricia Peknik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 3319974246
French Louisiana music emerged from the bayous and prairies of Southwest Louisiana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pioneered by impoverished Acadian and Afro-Caribbean settlers, the sound is marked by a high-pitched fiddle playing loud and fast above the bellow of a diatonic accordion. With lyrics about disaster and heartache sung cheerfully in a French dialect, the effect is dissonant and haunting. French Louisiana music was largely ignored in mainstream music culture, except by a handful of collectors, scholars, and commercial promoters who sought to popularize it. From the first recordings in the 1920s to the transformation of the genre by the 1970s, the spread of this regional sound was driven by local, national, and international elites who saw the music’s traditions and performers in the context of larger social, political, and cultural developments, including the folk revival and the civil rights and ethnic revival movements. Patricia Peknik illuminates how the music’s history and meaning were interpreted by a variety of actors who brought the genre onto a national and global stage, revealing the many interests at work in the popularization of a regional music.
Author : Lisa Ysaye
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Short stories, American
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Page : 1686 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Books
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Academic libraries
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Author : Sarah Barber
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :
Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches. In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston-Bird bring together chapters from historical specialists in the fields of fine art, photography, film, oral history, architecture, virtual sources, music, cartoons, landscape and material culture to explain why, when and how these less traditional sources can be used. Each chapter introduces the reader to the source, suggests the methodological and theoretical questions historians should keep in mind when using it, and provides case studies to illustrate best practice in analysis and interpretation. Pulling these disparate sources together, the introduction discusses the nature of historical sources and those factors which are unique to, and shared by, the sources covered throughout the book. Taking examples from around the globe, this collection of essays aims to inspire practitioners of history to expand their horizons, and incorporate a wide variety of primary sources in their work.
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Louisiana
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