Cajun breakdown, Brasseaux, Ryan Andre (lecturer In American Studies, Lecturer In American Studies, Yale University)

Автор: Goldsmith Thomas
Название: Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic
ISBN: 0252042964 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252042966
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Recorded in 1949, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" changed the face of American music. Earl Scruggs's instrumental essentially transformed the folk culture that came before it while helping to energize bluegrass's entry into the mainstream in the 1960s. The song has become a gateway to bluegrass for musicians and fans alike as well as a happily inescapable track in film and television. Thomas Goldsmith explores the origins and influence of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" against the backdrop of Scruggs's legendary career. Interviews with Scruggs, his wife Louise, disciple Bela Fleck, and sidemen like Curly Seckler, Mac Wiseman, and Jerry Douglas shed light on topics like Scruggs's musical evolution and his working relationship with Bill Monroe. As Goldsmith shows, the captivating sound of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" helped bring back the banjo from obscurity and distinguished the low-key Scruggs as a principal figure in American acoustic music.Passionate and long overdue, Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown takes readers on an ear-opening journey into two minutes and forty-three seconds of heaven.

Автор: Meaux Francois
Название: Blue Weeds: The Alchemy of a Cajun Childhood
ISBN: 1982211202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982211202
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Цена: 16550.00 T
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Описание: Some say a child is fortunate to grow up in a community with eccentric characters and plenty of opportunities to explore nature. Fran ois Meaux hit the jackpot. Born in southern Louisiana in a small town surrounded by rice fields, groves of moss-draped oaks, and the Gulf of Mexico, Frank soon learned to embrace the earthy, mysterious aspects of the Acadian region. In a colorful memoir, Frank details what it was like to grow up Cajun as a cotton-topped, intensely curious boy on a journey to manhood within a unique culture. His stories highlight his young life as he witnessed delights and difficulties, encountered the joyous and terrifying unknown, wondered about the unseen, and sought explanations for the unexplained. As his path led him through one experience after the other, Frank reflects on how the Cajun land and its inhabitants, like life itself, became nourishing yet mysterious, fertile yet frightening. Included are lagniappes that provide perspective as Frank looks back on his childhood and shares lessons learned as well as questions that remain unanswered. Blue Weeds is a coming-of-age memoir that creatively weaves a boy's experiences in southern Louisiana with the natural wonders, cultural uniqueness, love, and violence that surrounded the region.

Автор: Meaux Francois
Название: Blue Weeds: The Alchemy of a Cajun Childhood
ISBN: 1982211229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982211226
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 31220.00 T
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Описание: Some say a child is fortunate to grow up in a community with eccentric characters and plenty of opportunities to explore nature. Fran ois Meaux hit the jackpot. Born in southern Louisiana in a small town surrounded by rice fields, groves of moss-draped oaks, and the Gulf of Mexico, Frank soon learned to embrace the earthy, mysterious aspects of the Acadian region. In a colorful memoir, Frank details what it was like to grow up Cajun as a cotton-topped, intensely curious boy on a journey to manhood within a unique culture. His stories highlight his young life as he witnessed delights and difficulties, encountered the joyous and terrifying unknown, wondered about the unseen, and sought explanations for the unexplained. As his path led him through one experience after the other, Frank reflects on how the Cajun land and its inhabitants, like life itself, became nourishing yet mysterious, fertile yet frightening. Included are lagniappes that provide perspective as Frank looks back on his childhood and shares lessons learned as well as questions that remain unanswered. Blue Weeds is a coming-of-age memoir that creatively weaves a boy's experiences in southern Louisiana with the natural wonders, cultural uniqueness, love, and violence that surrounded the region.

Автор: Andre Cajun, Roger Hahn
Название: Basin Street
ISBN: 145561839X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781455618392
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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"Basin Street offers readers an account of several aspects of 'underground' New Orleans that is both highly entertaining and provocatively informative. A kind of oral history of what the author calls New Orleans' 'Pink Past, ' by which he means 'the field of harlotry' in all its many guises, Basin Street offers a detailed and humorously erudite narrative which includes the recruitment of participants, relocation in response to city growth, the involvement of local authorities (i.e., the local police force), and, of course, music traditions long associated with the legalized prostitution district known far and wide well into the twenty-first century as Storyville."-from the foreword by Roger Hahn

In this spicy text, author Andr 1/2 Cajun captures the scandalous past of New Orleans' infamous Basin Street and the area widely known as Storyville. This reprint of the second edition published in 1957 includes the charming pen and ink drawings of Zamb. Roger Hahn provides an insightful foreword that provides a cultural context for Cajun's lurid depictions.

Автор: John Broven
Название: South to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous 2nd Edition
ISBN: 1455623644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781455623648
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Описание: The Music of the Cajun Bayous.

Автор: Andre Cajun, John Magill
Название: Stories of New Orleans
ISBN: 1455617784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781455617784
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From Gen. Andrew Jackson to Marie Laveau to Paul Tulane, colorful legends of the early Crescent City convey a fascinating landscape. Author Andre Cajun's lively characters and locations etch an animated past relayed with artistic freedom. He imparts sensationalized circumstances that the modern reader will recognize as a typical style of today's media.

Cajun moved to New Orleans as a riverboat captain but soon found a more suitable career as an entertainer, delighting the crowds of visitors awaiting transport on the Mississippi with his historical parodies of Louisiana's rich traditions. Those embellished tales fill the pages of this vintage book. Predominantly fiction with just enough actual history to make them believable, these vignettes cover everything from a tongue-in-cheek expos 1/2 of the Quadroon Ballroom to the notorious Basin Street to assertions of Napoleon's remains hidden, along with pirate booty, deep in the bayous of Barataria.

This new edition is faithfully recreated from the 1951 version, with the addition of an informative foreword by John T. Magill. Cajun's unabashed exuberance for all things piratical and his taste for embellishment are celebrated much as they have been since this collection was originally released in 1941. Magill's foreword provides illuminating historical context documenting Cajun's societal biases along with his skewed sense of history-all of which make for an enjoyable read.