Acknowledgments
I would first like to thank my thesis committee for their guidance and patience. Especially my committee chair, Dr. Michael Martin, whose knowledge on Cajun culture and music was invaluable to my research. And I appreciate his patience with me and the various drafts of my thesis that were created from each new wave of edits.
I would also like to thank my colleagues from my assistantship at the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for their wonderful collaboration. You provided me with the tools that I needed to create this online exhibit as well as many of my media.
And lastly, I would like to thank my mother, best friends, and roommates. My mother, who encouraged me the whole time and believed in me to create something unique. My best friends who endured hours of complaints over the phone and in person for the last year and half. And my roommates that had to be guinea pigs to various visuals and put up with me in best and worst times as I wrote and created this thesis and exhibit.
THANK YOU!!