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    • Title:Accordions, fiddles, two step & swing : a Cajun music reader / edited by Ryan A. Brasseaux & Kevin S. Fontenot ; with a foreword by Wayne W. Daniel.
    • ISBN:1887366717
      9781887366717
      1887366725 (bound)
      9781887366724 (bound)
    • Published/Created:Lafayette : Center for Louisiana Studies, 2006.
    • Physical Description:x, 535 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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    • Variant and related titles:Accordions, fiddles, two step and swing
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 513-517) and index.
    • Contents:Under the green oak tree : origins and locales of Cajun music. Excerpts from Louisiana French folk songs / Irène Thérèse Whitfield -- Acculturation in Cajun folk music / Harry Oster -- The socio-cultural traits of the French folksong in Louisiana / Elizabeth Brandon -- The public and private domains of Cajun women musicians in southwest Louisiana / Lisa E. Richardson -- Grand Texas : accordion music and lifestyle on the Cajun frontière / Carl Lindahl -- Let the good times unroll : music and race relations in southwest Louisiana / Mark Mattern -- Introduction and use of accordions in Cajun music / Malcolm L. Comeaux -- Heritage, tradition, and travel : Louisiana French culture placed on a California dance floor / Mark F. DeWitt -- The Cajun dancehall / Malcolm L. Comeaux -- Une 'tite poule grasse ou La fille aînée [A little fat chicken or The eldest daughter] : a comparative analysis of Cajun and Creole Mardi Gras songs / Rocky L. Sexton and Harry Oster -- The Cajun French Music Association : the development of a music-centered ethnic organization / Rocky L. Sexton -- The water pump : commercialization of Cajun music. Cajun music / Barry Jean Ancelet -- Louisiana folk and regional popular music traditions on records and the radio : an historical overview with suggestions for future research / Stephen R. Tucker -- "Colinda" : mysterious origins of a Cajun folksong / Shane K. Bernard and Julia Frederick -- How y'all are : Justin Wilson, comedy, and ethnic identity / Kevin S. Fontenot -- Country chameleons : Cajuns on the Louisiana hayride / Tracey E.W. Laird -- J.D. Miller and Floyd Soileau : a comparison of two small-town recordmen of Acadiana ; Twistin' at the fais do-do : the roots of south Louisiana's swamp pop music / Shane K. Bernard -- The Cajun Music Festival : genesis and legacy / Barry Jean Ancelet -- "He decided a song about that" : profiles of Cajun artists. Joseph C. Falcon, accordion player and singer : a biographical sketch / Lauren C. Post -- "Mama, where you at?" : The chronicle of Maius LaFleur / Donald Lee Nelson -- Playing in the shadows : obscure early Cajun recording artists / Ron Brown -- Acadian fiddler Dennis McGee and Acadian dances / Brenda Daigle -- Moonshine and mosquitoes : the story of Dewey Segura / John H. Cowley -- Leo Soileau / Tony Russell -- The Hackberry Ramblers / Ben Sandmel -- Brief history of the Hackberry Ramblers / Luderin Darbone -- The Bayou Buckaroo : LeRoy "Happy Fats" LeBlanc / John Broven -- Harry Choates : Cajun fiddle ace ; Iry LeJune / Mike Leadbitter -- King of the dancehalls : accordionist Lawrence Walker / Kevin S. Fontenot and Ryan A. Brasseaux -- Aldus Roger : king of the French accordion / Ann Allen Savoy -- Jimmy C. Newman and his Cajun country roots / Douglas B. Green -- People buy the feel : Cajun fiddle master Rufus Thibodeaux / Kevin S. Fontenot -- Vin Bruce / Michael Hurtt -- Dewey Balfa : a cultural ambassador / Barry Jean Ancelet -- The Cajun Mick Jagger / Richard Baudoin -- Hawaiian shirts and Cajun power : basking in the sunshine of Michael Doucet and Beausoleil / Ryan A. Brasseaux and Erik Charpentier -- Never mind the bowties-- here's the Bluerunners / Michael Tisserand -- Fabricating authenticity : the Cajun Renaissance and Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys / Ryan A. Brasseaux and Erik Charpentier -- Get lost : the Lost Bayou Ramblers / Erik Charpentier -- Saving culture with a song : Cajun music and the twenty-first century -- An evolutionary chronology of Cajun music.
    • Subjects:Cajun music--Louisiana--History and criticism.
      Cajun music--History and criticism.
      Popular music--Louisiana--History and criticism.
      Musicians, Cajun.
    • Also listed under:Brasseaux, Ryan A.
      Fontenot, Kevin S.