French Louisiana Music and Its Patrons The Popularization and Transformation of a Regional Sound /

• Main Author: Peknik, Patricia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: United States-History.; Civilization-History.; Social history.; Music.; US History.; Cultural History.; Social History.

French Louisiana music emerged from the bayous and prairies of Southwest Louisiana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pioneered by impoverished Acadian and Afro-Caribbean settlers, the sound is marked by a high-pitched fiddle playing loud and fast above the bellow of a diatonic ac...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: "A Wild and Ferocious Waltz"
• 2. French Louisiana Music from Home and Dancehall to Fred's Lounge and Radio
• 3. From the War on French to the War in France: World War II and Cultural Identity
• 4. "It's all French Music": Patrons on the Trail
• 5. Brand New Old-Time Southern Americana: Harry Smith's Anthology Brings French Louisiana Music into the Folk Canon
• 6. "I want you to be/just like you used to be, darling": Choreographing the Newport Waltz
• 7. Utter Strangers: The English and French Language Movements
• 8. "Les metamorphoses": Civil Rights, Ethnic Revival, and New Regional Sounds
• 9. Postscript.