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Cajun Country (Chap. 10 "Music and Musical Instruments")
by Barry Jean Ancelet, Jay D. Edwards, Glen Pitre. 256 pgs.

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Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One History

Chapter 1 Origins

Chapter 2 Settlement and Society

Chapter 3 Acadian Folklife

Part Two Social Institutions

Chapter 4 Family Organization

Chapter 5 Religious Rituals and Festivals

Chapter 6 Folk Medicine

Chapter 7 Folk Law and Justice

Part Three Material Culture

Chapter 8 Folk Architecture

Chapter 9 Foodways

Part Four Performance

Chapter 10 Music and Musical Instruments

Chapter 11 Games and Gaming

Chapter 12 Oral Traditions

Conclusion

Bibliographical Essay

Bibliography

Index
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Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action (Chap. 5 "Laissez les Bon Temps Roulez: Cajun Music and Cultural Revival")
by Mark Mattern. 190 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 2: Popular Music, Political Action, and Power

Chapter 4: Resistance and Redemocratization After the 1973 Coup

Chapter 5: Cajun Music And Cultural Revival

Chapter 6: Negotiating Cajun Identity And Relations with Black Creoles

Chapter 7: Powwow Music in Minnesota And Western Wisconsin

Chapter 8: Music, Community, and Diversity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Let the Good Times Unroll: Music and Race Relations in Southwest Louisiana, in Black Music Research Journal
by Mark Mattern. 10 pgs.

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Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies (Chap. 5 "Of Hecceites and Ritournelles: Movement and Affect in the Cajun Dance Arena")
by Ann Cvetkovkh, Douglas Kellner. 250 pgs.

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Politics and Culture

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Introduction: Thinking Global and Local

Part One: Theorizing the Global and the Local

1: Collective Identity and the Democratic Nation-State in the Age of Globalization

2: Looking for Globality in Los Angeles

3: The (Trans)National Basketball Association: American Commodity-Sign Culture and Global-Local Conjuncturalism

4: The Politics of Corporate Ecological Restorations: Comparing Global and Local North American Contexts

Part Two: Cultural Studies and the Locations of Culture

5: Of HeccéItés and Ritournelles: Movement and Affect in the Cajun Dance Arena

6: Cosmopolitanism and Communion: Renegotiating Relations in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days

7: In the Name of Audre Lorde: the Location of Poetry in the United States

Part Three: Trans Local Connections

8: Translating Resistance

9: License to Feel: Teaching in the Context of War(s)

10: Nationalism and Internationalism: Domestic Differences in a Postcolonial World

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About the Editors and Contributors

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World Music: The Basics ("Cajun-Zydeco" begins on p. 303)
by Richard Nidel. 404 pgs.

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This title gives a brief introduction to popular musical styles found around the world. Organized by continent/region, and then A to Z by country, the book features both background information on the cultural and musical history of each area, along with succinct reviews of key recordings.

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Foreword

Acknowledgements

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1: Africa

2: Europe

3: Middle East

4: Asia

5: North and Central America and the Caribbean

6: South America

7: Australia and the South Pacific

Glossary of Genres

Bibliography

Index
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Zydeco Country, in American Visions
by Dari Giles. 3 pgs.

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Squeezebox: The Legacy of the Afro-Mississippi Accordionists, in Black Music Research Journal
by Jared M. Snyder. 21 pgs.

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