Discusses the musical styles of more than 20 outstanding Cajun and Creole musicians from Louisiana

The Makers of Cajun Music: Musiciens cadiens et creoles (English and French Edition)

Arts & Photography

Ancelet, Barry Jean

Music

University of Texas Press

The first book in the Folklife in the South series and by far the broadest look at traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It not only describes the traditions as they are but also explains how they came to be.

Cajun Country (Folklife in the South Series)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Edwards, Jay

Pitre, Glen

Regional & International

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings--the Cajun French and its English translation--along with insightful commentaries.
This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana through the years has remained vigorous and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of their best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales--all of them colorful examples of Louisiana narrative at its best.
Though greatly transformed since the French arrived on southern soil, the French oral tradition is alive and flourishing today. It is even more complex and varied than has been shown in previous studies, for revealed here are African influences as well as others that have been filtered from America's multicultural mainstream.

Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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Capitaine, Voyage Ton Flag: The Traditional Cajun Country Mardi Gras (Trinity Paper)

History

Americas

University of Louisiana

Cajun Music: Its Origins and Development (Louisiana Life Series ; No. 2)

Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette

The virtual renaissance of all things Cajun and Creole has captivated enthusiasts throughout America and invigorated the culture back home. Who, just fifteen years ago, could have predicted that this regional music would become so astonishingly popular throughout the nation and the world? 
This new edition of a book first published in 1984 celebrates the music makers in the generation most responsible for the survival of Cajun music and zydeco and showcases many of the young performers who have emerged since them to give the music new spark. More than 100 color photographs, show them in their homes, on their front porches, and in their fields, as well as in performance at local clubs and dance halls and on festival stages. In interviews they speak directly about their lives, their music, and the vital tradition from which their rollicking music springs. 
Many of the legendary performers featured here--Dewey Balfa, Clifton Chenier, Nathan Abshire, Dennis McGee, Canray Fontenot, Varise Connor, Octa Clark, Lula Landry, and Inez Catalon--are no longer alive. Others from the early days continue to perform--Bois-sec Ardoin, Michael Doucet, D. L. Menard, and Zachary Richard. Their grandeur, humor, and humility are precisely the qualities this book captures. 
Featured too are young musicians who are taking their place in the dance halls, on festival stages, and on the folk music circuit. Cajun and Creole music makers, both young and old, still play in the old ways, but as young musicians--such as Geno Delafose and the French Rockin' Boogie, and Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys-- experiment and enrich the tradition with new sounds of rock, country, rap, and funk, the music evolves and enlivens a whole new audience. Barry Jean Ancelet, a native French-speaking Cajun, is chair of the Department of Modern Languages and director of the Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Among his many books are Cajun Country and Cajun and Creole Folk Tales (both from the University Press of Mississippi). Elemore Morgan, Jr., is an artist and retired professor of visual art at University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et creoles

Photography & Video

Jean-le-Chasseur et ses chiens est basé sur un conte traditionnel raconté à l'auteur par Edouard Dugas, son grand-père de deuxième noce. C'est l'histoire d'un jeune homme qui habite dans une maison au bord du bois avec sa mère et ses trois chiens. Un jour, quand il est en train de chasser dans le bois, il rencontre une belle jeune femme. Il ne peut voir que son côté enchanté, mais ses chiens voient la méchante sorcière qu'elle est en réalité. Il tombe en amour avec la sorcière, mais quand elle finit par le menacer, la mère de Jean-le-Chasseur et ses chiens viennent à son secours. Jean-le-Chasseur et ses chiens is the story of a young man who lives near a forest with his mother and three dogs. One day, while hunting in the woods with his dogs, he meets a beautiful young woman. Although he does not know it, she enchants him. His dogs see her for the wicked witch she is, however, and they eventually come to his rescue.

Jean-Le-Chasseur Et Ses Chiens (French Edition)

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

From Behind the Mask brings together essays written over a period of more than forty years, based on Barry Jean Ancelet's observations and experiences. Ancelet explores critical elements of the traditional Mardi Gras runs of Cajun and Creole South Louisiana, including strategies for masking, costuming, begging, singing, playing, and moving through the countryside. He addresses historical issues, including the tradition's roots in European and Afro-Caribbean festivals, as well as its contemporary dynamics and ongoing evolution, including local social, cultural and political issues involving class, identity, gender and race. Mardi Gras runs can seem at first glance to be wide-open public celebrations, but they are actually intimate expressions of community solidarity. Carnivalesque play is most effective when the players and their hosts would know each other except for the masks and costumes of the moment. Singing, dancing, intense begging, and verbal play create the improvised theater provided in exchange for contributions to the communal gathering and meal at the end of the day. Mardi Gras is an elaborate game designed to entertain and generate laughter, and because every game has its rules and masters, Mardi Gras capitaines and their deputies ride herd on the revelers to keep play from devolving into chaos. The processional nature of this ritual enables it to move through what the participants think of as their little worlds, turning everything around them into temporary props and stages and drawing observers into their improvised farces, driven by a sense of deep play that tickles power with inversions of social structures and intense interaction from behind the masks.

From Behind the Mask: Essays on South Louisiana Mardi Gras Runs

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