Research Catalog

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.

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Details

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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

American made music series

Uniform Title

American made music series

Subject

• Cajun music > California, Northern > History and criticism
• Zydeco music > California, Northern > History and criticism
• Folk dance music > California, Northern > History and criticism
• Cajun music
• Folk dance music
• Zydeco music
• Cajun
• Musik
• Volkstanz
• Zydeco
• Northern California
• Kalifornien > Nord
• Cajun

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258), discography (p. 259-269), filmography (p. 271), and index.

Contents

Prelude : down at the twist and shout -- Identity issues, research methods, and ethnography -- Music, dance, and social capital -- Wartime and postwar Creole migration to California -- Further Creole migration and bridging to other social networks -- Folk revival connection : the musicians -- Folk revival connection : the dancers -- Later Gulf Coast arrivals.

ISBN

• 9781604730906
• 1604730900

LCCN

2008010801

OCLC

• ocn214063718
• 214063718
• SCSB-14690739

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library