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Cajun breakdown : the emergence of an American-made music / Ryan Andre Brasseaux.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brasseaux, Ryan A.
- Series:
- American musicspheres.
- American musicspheres
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cajun music--History and criticism.
- Cajun music.
- Popular music--Social aspects--United States.
- Popular music.
- Cajuns--History.
- Cajuns.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- '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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045111-4
- 0-19-971131-3
- 1-282-33547-2
- 9786612335471
- OCLC:
- 503605488
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