Jambalaya, Apple Pie, Chante Quelque Chose Oh Yé Yaille: A History of Cajun Culture through Music from the Early 1920s to the Late 1980s

Further Research

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

Collections: 
The Barry Jean Ancelet, Johnnie Allan 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
cls@louisiana.edu | https://louisianastudies.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. Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.

Bernard, Shane K. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People. Jackson: University Press
of Mississippi, 2003.
 
Brasseaux, Ryan, and Kevin Fontenot. Accordions, Fiddles, Two Step & Swing. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2006.

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 and 2019.

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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