Louisiana Creole Cajun Cultures In Perspective

Author : Tracy Kathleen
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612286013

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Louisiana Creole and Cajun Cultures in Perspective by Tracy Kathleen Pdf

Louisiana Creole and Cajun Cultures in Perspective is an in-depth look at the different regional cultures of Louisiana that have developed, with an emphasis on current culture. The young reader is presented with an overview of a variety of regional cultures that developed historically and analyzes how the cultural history shapes Louisiana's current cultures. The book is written in a lively and interesting style and contains the Louisiana region's languages, foods, music/dance, art/literature, religions, holidays, lifestyle, and most importantly contemporary culture in the area today. The book has been developed to address many of the Common Core specific goals, higher level thinking skills, and progressive learning strategies from informational texts for middle grade and junior high level students.

Author : Kathleen Tracy
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781545751640

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Louisiana Creole & Cajun Cultures in Perspective by Kathleen Tracy Pdf

Cajun Cultures in Perspective Louisiana’s colorful past has shaped the state’s culturally diverse present. Its territory has had numerous claimants. The first was explorer Hernando de Soto on behalf of Spain in 1541, followed by Robert de la Salle of France and even the short-lived Republic of West Florida before it became the 18th state to join the Union in 1812. At the start of the Civil War, Louisiana became an independent republic for two weeks after seceding from the Union before joining the Confederacy.

Author : Tammy Gagne
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781545751596

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Brazilian Cultures in Perspective by Tammy Gagne Pdf

Brazilian Cultures in Perspective is an in-depth look at the different regional cultures of Brazil with an emphasis on current culture. The young reader is presented with an overview of a variety of regional cultures that developed historically and analyzes how the cultural History shapes the Brazilian regions current cultures. The book is written in a lively and interesting style and covers a variety of Brazilian regions including: northern Brazil, Amazon, Manaus, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo. The book presents languages, foods, music/dance, art/literature, religions, holidays, lifestyle, and most importantly contemporary culture in the country today. The book has been developed to address many of the Common Core specific goals, higher level thinking skills, and progressive learning strategies from informational texts for middle grade and junior high level students.

Author : Claire O'Neal
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781545751671

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Polynesian Cultures in Perspective by Claire O'Neal Pdf

Polynesian Cultures in Perspective is an in-depth look at the different regional cultures of the large number of Polynesian islands and countries, with an emphasis on current culture. The young reader is presented with an overview of a variety of regional cultures that developed historically and analyzes how the cultural History shapes the Polynesian region s current culture. The book is written in a lively and interesting style and contains the Polynesian region s languages, foods, music/dance, art/literature, religions, holidays, lifestyle, and most importantly contemporary culture in the country today. The book has been developed to address many of the Common Core specific goals, higher level thinking skills, and progressive learning strategies from informational texts for middle grade and junior high level students.

Author : Tammy Gagne
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781545751657

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Native Alaskan Cultures in Perspective by Tammy Gagne Pdf

Native Alaskan Cultures in Perspective is an in-depth look at the different regional cultures of Alaska with an emphasis on current cultures. The young reader is presented with an overview of a variety of regional cultures that developed historically and analyzes how the cultural History shapes the Alaskan region s current cultures. The book is written in a lively and interesting style and discusses a variety of Alaskan peoples including the Yupik (Eskimo), Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Athabaskan, and Tsimsian. The book contains the Alaskan region s languages, foods, music/dance, art/literature, religions, holidays, lifestyle, and most importantly contemporary culture in the country today. The book has been developed to address many of the Common Core specific goals, higher level thinking skills, and progressive learning strategies from informational texts for middle grade and junior high level students.

Author : Shane K. Bernard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496800923

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The Cajuns by Shane K. Bernard Pdf

The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period, they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll and television crackled across Louisiana airwaves, Cajun music makers responded with their own distinct versions. In the 1960s, empowerment and liberation movements turned the South upside down. During the 1980s, as things Cajun became an absorbing national fad, “Cajun” became a kind of brand identity used for selling everything from swamp tours to boxed rice dinners. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the advent of a new information age launched “Cyber-Cajuns” onto a worldwide web. All these forces have pushed and pulled at the fabric of Cajun life but have not destroyed it. A Cajun himself, the author of this book has an intense personal fascination in his people. By linking seemingly local events in the Cajuns' once isolated south Louisiana homeland to national and even global events, Bernard demonstrates that by the middle of the twentieth century the Cajuns for the first time in their ethnic story were engulfed in the currents of mainstream American life and yet continued to make outstandingly distinct contributions.

Author : Barry Jean Ancelet,Jay Edwards,Glen Pitre
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604736175

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Cajun Country by Barry Jean Ancelet,Jay Edwards,Glen Pitre Pdf

This insightful book is by far the broadest examination of traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It goes beyond the stereotypes and surface treatment given to Cajuns by the popular media and examines the great variety of cultural elements alive in Cajun culture today--cooking, music, storytelling, architecture, arts and crafts, and festivals, as well as traditional occupations such as fishing, hunting, and trapping. It not only gives fascinating descriptions of elements in Cajun life that have been woven into the fabric of American history and folklore; it also explains how they came to be. Cajun Country reveals the historical background of the Cajun people, who migrated to Louisiana as exiles from their Canadian homeland, and it shows their folklife as a living and ongoing legacy that enriches America.

Author : John Micklos, Jr.,Richard Hantula,Margaret Dornfeld
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502644466

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Wisconsin by John Micklos, Jr.,Richard Hantula,Margaret Dornfeld Pdf

It's known as "America's Dairyland" because of its production of milk and cheese, but Wisconsin boasts far more than just cows and cold weather. Using photographs, fun facts, and engaging text, this book explores Wisconsin's geography, rich history, business and industry, cities, people, and lifestyle. Readers will gain an understanding of what makes the Badger State special.

Author : Michael D. Picone,Catherine Evans Davies
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817318154

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New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South by Michael D. Picone,Catherine Evans Davies Pdf

An outgrowth of the Language Variety in the South III symposium, New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches comprises forty-five original essays on a range of topics regarding the languages and dialects of the American South. Book jacket.

Author : James H. Dormon,University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Studies
Publisher : Lafayette, La. : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000007432895

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The People Called Cajuns by James H. Dormon,University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Studies Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496806567

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Cajun and Creole Folktales by Anonim Pdf

This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language retellings--the Cajun French and its English translation--along with insightful commentaries. This volume reveals the long and lively heritage of the Louisiana folktale among French Creoles and Cajuns and shows how tale-telling in Louisiana through the years has remained vigorous and constantly changing. Some of the best storytellers of the present day are highlighted in biographical sketches and are identified by some of their best tales. Their repertory includes animal stories, magic stories, jokes, tall tales, Pascal (improvised) stories, and legendary tales--all of them colorful examples of Louisiana narrative at its best. Though greatly transformed since the French arrived on southern soil, the French oral tradition is alive and flourishing today. It is even more complex and varied than has been shown in previous studies, for revealed here are African influences as well as others that have been filtered from America's multicultural mainstream.

Author : Jacques Henry,Sara Le Menestrel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604732238

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Working the Field by Jacques Henry,Sara Le Menestrel Pdf

Working the Field: Accounts from French Louisiana records reflections on the fieldwork conducted in French Louisiana by a group of anthropologists and folklorists from Louisiana, the United States, Canada, and France between the 1970s and 2000. Contributors cast a critical look at the core anthropological concepts of field informants, and knowledge. Reassessing, they propose that the field, identities, and knowledge acquired are not set entities but rather are a matter of construction. Personal profiles of the researchers (native or outsider, activist or academic, man or woman, black or white) contribute to frame the investigations. Essays also illustrate the shifting of these identities during and after the research in response to personal, relational, and political circumstances. This volume is a vital addition to the body of work on French Louisiana and Cajun and Creole Culture, and it provides an understanding of the true nature of anthropological fieldwork that is of great value to anyone attemmpting to research in a modern setting.

Author : Sara Le Menestrel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781626743724

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Negotiating Difference in French Louisiana Music by Sara Le Menestrel Pdf

Sara Le Menestrel explores the role of music in constructing, asserting, erasing, and negotiating differences based on the notions of race, ethnicity, class, and region. She discusses established notions and brings to light social stereotypes and hierarchies at work in the evolving French Louisiana music field. She also draws attention to the interactions between oppositions such as black and white, urban and rural, differentiation and creolization, and local and global. Le Menestrel emphasizes the importance of desegregating the understanding of French Louisiana music and situating it beyond ethnic or racial identifications, amplifying instead the importance of regional identity. Musical genealogy and categories currently in use rely on a racial construct that frames African and European lineage as an essential difference. Yet as the author samples music in the field and discovers ways music is actually practiced, she reveals how the insistence on origins continually interacts with an emphasis on cultural mixing and creative agency. This book finds French Louisiana musicians navigating between multiple identifications, musical styles, and legacies while market forces, outsiders’ interest, and geographical mobility also contribute to shape musicians’ career strategies and artistic choices. The book also demonstrates the decisive role of non-natives’ enthusiasm and mobility in the validation, evolution, and reconfiguration of French Louisiana music. Finally, the distinctiveness of South Louisiana from the rest of the country appears to be both nurtured and endured by locals, revealing how political domination and regionalism intertwine.

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807130362

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French, Cajun, Creole, Houma by Carl A. Brasseaux Pdf

In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous. In this guide to the amazing social, cultural, and linguistic variation within Louisiana's French-speaking region, Carl A. Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities. Brasseaux examines the impact of French immigration on Louisiana over the past three centuries. He shows how this once-undesirable outpost of the French empire became colonized by individuals ranging from criminals to entrepreneurs who went on to form a multifaceted society -- one that, unlike other American melting pots, rests upon a French cultural foundation. A prolific author and expert on the region, Brasseaux offers readers an entertaining history of how these diverse peoples created south Louisiana's famous vibrant culture, interacting with African Americans, Spaniards, and Protestant Anglos and encountering influences from southern plantation life and the Caribbean. He explores in detail three still cohesive components in the Francophone melting pot, each one famous for having retained a distinct identity: the Creole communities, both black and white; the Cajun people; and the state's largest concentration of French speakers -- the Houma tribe. A product of thirty years' research, French, Cajun, Creole, Houma provides a reliable and understandable guide to the ethnic roots of a region long popular as an international tourist attraction.

Author : Felicia Raphael Marie Barber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781793635358

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A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African American Spirituals by Felicia Raphael Marie Barber Pdf

A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African American Spirituals: History, Context, and Linguistics investigates the use of the African American English (AAE) dialect in the musical genre of the spiritual. Perfect for conductors and performers alike, this book traces the history of the dialect, its use in early performance practice, and the sociolinguistic impact of the AAE dialect in the United States. Felicia Barber explores AAE’s development during the African Diaspora and its correlations with Southern States White English (SSWE) and examines the dialect’s perception and how its weaponization has impacted the performance of the genre itself. She provides a synopsis of research on the use of dialect in spirituals from the past century through the analysis of written scores, recordings, and research. She identifies common elements of early performance practice and provides the phonological and grammatical features identified in early practice. This book contains practical guide for application of her findings on ten popular spiritual texts using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It concludes with insights by leading arrangers on their use of AAE dialect as a part of the genre and practice.