Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana : The 1934 Lomax Recordings / Joshua Clegg Caffery ; foreword by Barry Jean Ancelet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caffery, Joshua Clegg.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Louisiana--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

Cajuns--Louisiana--Music--History and criticism.

Cajuns.

Folk music--Louisiana--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Folk songs--Louisiana--History and criticism.

Folk songs.

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002--Ethnomusicological collections.

Lomax, Alan.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934, his father John, then curator of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song, took an eighteen-year-old Alan and a 300-pound aluminum disk recorder into the rice fields of Jennings, along the waterways of New Iberia, and behind the gates of Angola State Penitentiary to collect vestiges of African American and Acadian musical tradition. These recordings now serve as the fou

Contents:

""Inch above Your Knee""""The Old Chisholm Trail""; ""Belle""; ""The Breaux Brothers Band""; ""Little Dog Blues""; ""Leon Ewens""; ""Frankie and Albert""; ""Eddie Murphy""; ""The Waco Girl""; ""Ollie Murphy""; ""The Orphan Girl""; ""The Stafford Family""; ""Jesse Stafford""; ""Je maendors""; ""Devilish Mary""; ""I'm Alone in This World""; ""Sam Stafford""; ""The Girl I Left in Missouri""; ""Charlie Was a Nice Young Boy""; ""Skip to My Lou""; ""Sam and Jesse Stafford""; ""Trois Jolis Tambours""; ""Ella Varney (Barney)""; ""Ain't Gonna Grieve""; ""EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH""

""Adam in the Garden Pinnin Leaves""""Dry Bones""; ""Give-a Me Jesus""; ""I Want to Go to Heaven All Dressed in White""; ""Jesus Roll 'Er in His Arms""; ""Thank God Almighty""; ""Comin' Down the Line""; ""Oliver Charles, Foster Charles, and Dusty Livingston""; ""Job's Gone to Heaven""; ""Heard 'em When They Called Elijah's Name""; ""Wilfred Charles""; ""Dgo/Zydeco""; ""Lunda Comeaux""; ""Je suis la dlaiss""; ""Le Beau Galant""; ""La Belle, je suis venu""; ""La Belle sen va""; ""Je suis nen automne""; ""La Toute Petite Couette""; ""Dans le village""

""La Sainte Catherine""""Je me suis mari""; ""Charmant Billie""; ""Un de ces grands matins""; ""Madame Joe""; ""Auparavant de s'en aller""; ""Asseyez-vous dessus la terre""; ""Fait le tour, we danced all night""; ""Madame Fardeuil""; ""Laissez-moi""; ""Henry DeCuir""; ""Jambe de bois""; ""Alfred Granger""; ""Je tiens ma bouteille""; ""L'Amour et Fanatisme""; ""Didier H'bert""; ""Mes Camarades il faut partir""; ""Luke H'bert""; "" boire""; ""Adieu, mes vingt ans""; ""C'est l'amour qui m'a s duit le coeur""; ""The Hoffpauir Family""; ""Papier d'pingles""

""La Jolie Fille et le GarÃon Colonial""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8071-5202-1

OCLC:

860711596