ISBN:
9780195343069
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 317 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
American musicspheres
Parallel Title:
Print version Cajun Breakdown : The Emergence of an American-Made Music
DDC:
781.62/410763
Keywords:
Popular music Social aspects
;
Cajun music History and criticism
;
Cajuns History
;
Louisiana
;
Cajun-Music
;
Geschichte 1900-2008
Abstract:
'Cajun Breakdown' examines the social and cultural roots of Cajun music's development through 1950. The idiom's synthetic nature suggests an extensive and intensive dialogue with popular culture that extinguishes the myth that Cajuns were an insular folk group astray in the American South
Description / Table of Contents:
Social music -- Early commercial era -- A heterogeneous tradition -- Becoming the folk -- Cajun swing era -- The modern Cajun sound -- Cajun national anthem -- A new mental world.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-308) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195343069.001.0001
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