Book
Cajun music: its origin and development
Center for Louisiana Studies • (2) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 58 , [8] of plates
By: Ancelet, Barry Jean.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents a concise survey of the history and development of Cajun music from the early settlements in Nova Scotia in the seventeenth century to the late twentieth century in Louisiana. Ancelet concentrates on the evolutionary changes that took place in Cajun music after Acadian resettlement in Louisiana in the eighteenth century, first as the result of contact with Creole, Anglo-American, and Spanish musical forms, and later (in the twentieth century), under the influence of the blues, swing, and country sounds. Ancelet also discusses the effects on Cajun music of the introduction of the accordion in the eighteenth century, and other instruments (e.g., the electric guitar), in the 1940s and l950s.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Music
- Musical instruments
- Literary texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cajuns
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Folklorist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle, 1993
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Louisiana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Barry Jean Ancelet
- Includes bibliographical references and discography (p. 52-58)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89060537
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cajuns