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Cajun and zydeco dance music in Northern California : modern pleasures in a postmodern world
- Title
- Cajun and zydeco dance music in Northern California : modern pleasures in a postmodern world / Mark F. DeWitt.
- Author
- DeWitt, Mark F.
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- viii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California traces how this region of California has been able to develop and sustain dances several times a week with more than a dozen bands. Description of this active regional scene opens into a discussion of several historical trends that have affected life and music in Louisiana and the nation. The book portrays the diversity of people who have adopted Cajun and Creole dance music as a way to cope with a globalized, media-saturated world." "Ethnomusicologist Mark F. DeWitt innovatively weaves together interviews with musicians and dancers (some from Louisiana, some not), analysis of popular media, participant observation as a musician and dancer, and historical perspectives from wartime black migration patterns, the civil rights movement, American folk and blues revivals, California counterculture, and the rise of cultural tourism in "Cajun Country." In so doing, he reveals the multifaceted appeal of celebrating life on the dance floor, Louisiana-French style."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- American made music series
- Uniform Title
- American made music series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258), discography (p. 259-269), filmography (p. 271), and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Prelude: Down At The Twist And Shout -- Ch. 2. Identity Issues, Research Methods, and Ethnography -- Ch. 3. Music, Dance, and Social Capital -- Ch. 4. Wartime and Postwar Creole Migration to California -- Ch. 5. Further Creole Migration and Bridging to Other Social Networks -- Ch. 6. Folk Revival Connection: The Musicians -- Ch. 7. Folk Revival Connection: The Dancers -- Ch. 8. Later Gulf Coast Arrivals.
- ISBN
- 9781604730906 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1604730900 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008010801
- 99932999327
- OCLC
- ocn214063718
- 214063718
- SCSB-5460563
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries