Cajun Breakdown by Ryan Andre Brasseaux
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.-
Four Parts, No Waiting
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Resounding Afro Asia
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Jump Up!
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Singing God's Words
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Greeted With Smiles
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Claiming Diaspora
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Fiddler on the Move
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Voices from the Canefields
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Sound Relations
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Louisiana Hayride
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Capital Bluegrass
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Bright Star of the West
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Romani Routes
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The Lord's Song in a Strange Land
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Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music
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Balkan Fascination
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Jazz Migrations
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Polkabilly
Brasseaux forges revelatory new terrain in the study of Cajun music..[He] demonstrates an impressive and vast familiarity of recorded period music produced from inside and outside of Louisiana. * Louisiana History *
Though Cajun music has been depicted as a Louisiana oddity, it was, by definition, international from the start. Ryan Brasseaux places Cajun music in the mainstream of American music, where it belongs. The folkloric myth of purity and isolation dissolves before his historical contextualization of the synchronicity of Cajun life and art with national and global trends. Cajun music changed over time and with the times. Its trans-Atlantic, French, Canadian, and southern roots lapped and twined into an American art form. The music becomes all the more original, adaptive, and brilliant when heard through Brasseaux's riveting depiction. * Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History Yale University *
In Cajun Breakdown, Ryan Brasseaux eloquently traces the history of Cajun people and their music from their arrival in Louisiana in 1764 to the present. His fine book firmly establishes Cajun music as a central part of mainstream American culture. * William Ferris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *
Brasseaux's Cajun Breakdown is a lucid and compelling account of the survival of a people and their music against all odds. It's hard to imagine there being a better book on the history of Cajun music. * John Szwed, Author of So What: The Life of Miles Davis *
A noteworthy achievement...A well-informed discographic discussion that emphasizes cultural adaptation, the book will bring needed attention to Cajun music and, perhaps more importantly, to the study of music as a viable means to understand the societies that produce and consume it. * The Journal of American History *
An important addition to the study of Cajun music...Brasseaux breaks new ground and upsets the status quo, particularly in his zeal to reclaim Cajun Swing as a genre worthy of study and appreciation. This thoughtful, passionately worded monograph belongs in the pantheon of books by earlier south Louisiana music researchers...Brasseaux's study is highly recommended for students of Cajun music and culture as well as those interested in regional and vernacular music in general. * American Historical Review *
[A] wonderful examination of Cajun music. * The Journal of Southern History *
Though Cajun music has been depicted as a Louisiana oddity, it was, by definition, international from the start. Ryan Brasseaux places Cajun music in the mainstream of American music, where it belongs. The folkloric myth of purity and isolation dissolves before his historical contextualization of the synchronicity of Cajun life and art with national and global trends. Cajun music changed over time and with the times. Its trans-Atlantic, French, Canadian, and southern roots lapped and twined into an American art form. The music becomes all the more original, adaptive, and brilliant when heard through Brasseaux's riveting depiction. * Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History Yale University *
In Cajun Breakdown, Ryan Brasseaux eloquently traces the history of Cajun people and their music from their arrival in Louisiana in 1764 to the present. His fine book firmly establishes Cajun music as a central part of mainstream American culture. * William Ferris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *
Brasseaux's Cajun Breakdown is a lucid and compelling account of the survival of a people and their music against all odds. It's hard to imagine there being a better book on the history of Cajun music. * John Szwed, Author of So What: The Life of Miles Davis *
A noteworthy achievement...A well-informed discographic discussion that emphasizes cultural adaptation, the book will bring needed attention to Cajun music and, perhaps more importantly, to the study of music as a viable means to understand the societies that produce and consume it. * The Journal of American History *
An important addition to the study of Cajun music...Brasseaux breaks new ground and upsets the status quo, particularly in his zeal to reclaim Cajun Swing as a genre worthy of study and appreciation. This thoughtful, passionately worded monograph belongs in the pantheon of books by earlier south Louisiana music researchers...Brasseaux's study is highly recommended for students of Cajun music and culture as well as those interested in regional and vernacular music in general. * American Historical Review *
[A] wonderful examination of Cajun music. * The Journal of Southern History *
Louisiana native Ryan André Brasseaux is the Dean of Davenport College and Lecturer in American Studies at Yale University. A former Research Associate for public radio's American Routes hosted by Nick Spitzer, Brasseaux has served as a Cajun cultural expert for the National Council for the Traditional Arts, Associated Press, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, National Film Board of Canada, and the Food Network. He lives on Yale's campus with his wife Jessika and their two children Anne Elise and Joseph Emile.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780190628444 |
| ISBN 10 | 0190628448 |
| Title | Cajun Breakdown |
| Author | Ryan Andre Brasseaux |
| Series | American Musicspheres |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2016-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 338 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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