Jambalaya, Apple Pie, Chante Quelque Chose Oh Yé Yaille: A History of Cajun Culture through Music from the Early 1920s to the Late 1980s Main Menu Jambalaya, Apple Pie, Chante Quelque Chose Oh Yé Yaille The Online Exhibit Acknowledgments Many people were a part of the process of this exhibit! Introduction What is this exhibit about? Defining Terms The Twentieth Century for Louisiana A century of change and growth Discovery of Commercial Cajun Music: The Beginnings The introducing of Cajun traditional music to record companies in the later 1920s Discovery of Commercial Cajun Music: New Styles The 1930s was a time of changes in music styles as many imitated what was popular Discovery of Commercial Cajun Music: The Comeback World War II halted music production until victory led to a revival of folk music in the later half of the 1940s The Revival in the Second Half of the Century An era of “Renaissance” for Cajun music The Acts of Revival for Cajun Music: The Dance Hall Sounds of Zydeco The rise of Zydeco in South Louisiana and its influence to Cajun Music The Acts of Revival for Cajun Music: The Dance Hall Sounds of Swamp Pop The creation of Swamp Pop as a sub-genre of Cajun Music The Acts of Revival for Cajun Music: The Cajun Culture and Music sThe struggle between American mainstream culture and a growing counterculture The Acts of Revival: CODOFIL and Cajun Music The Acts of Revival for Cajun Music: The Contemporary Era Conclusion The Twenty-First Century Era Endnotes List of Songs The songs featured in the exhibit in order of chapters Rachel Blomquist

Further Research

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Here are the major works and collections that helped me create this exhibit:

Collections: 
The Barry Jean Ancelet, Johnnie All Images, Mark DeWitt, and John Broven Collections at the Center for Louisiana Studies at the Univeristy of Louisiana at Lafayette. 
To contact or find the Center for Louisiana Studies:
400 E. St. Mary Blvd, Lafayette, LA 70503
337-482-6027 | cls@louisiana.edu

Books and Aticles: 
Ancelet, Barry Jean. "Cajun Music." The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume
12: Music (University of North Carolina Press) 12 (2008): 39-42.

Ancelet, Barry Jean. Cajun Music: Its Origins and Developments. Lafayette: Center for
Louisiana Studies, 1989.

Ancelet, Barry Jean. "Negotiating the Mainstream: The Creoles and Cajuns in
Louisiana." The French Review 80, no. 6 (2007): 1235-1255.

Ancelet, Barry Jean. The Makers of Cajun Music: Musiciens cadiens et créoles. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1984.

Bernard, Shane, and Julia Girouard. "Colinda: Mysterious Origins of a Cajun Folksong."
Journal of Folklore Research 29, no. 1 (1992): 37-52.

Bernard, Shane K. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People. Jackson: University Press
of Mississippi, 2003.

Brasseaux, Carl A. French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana.
Baton Reuge: Louisiana State Unversity Press, 2005.

Brasseaux, Ryan A. Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Broven, John. South to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous. Gretna: Pelican
 Publishing Co., 1992.

Hodges, David J. The Cajun Culture of Southwestern Louisiana: a Study of Cultural
Isolation and Role Adaptation as Factors in the Fusion of Black African and
French Acadian Culture Traits. New York, 1971.

Savoy, Ann Allen. Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Vol. 1. Eunice, LA: Bluebird
Press, 1984.
 

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