French Louisiana Music and Its Patrons : the Popularization and Transformation of a Regional Sound / by Patricia Peknik.

French Louisiana music emerged from the bayous and prairies of Southwest Louisiana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pioneered by impoverished Acadian and Afro-Caribbean settlers, the sound is marked by a high-pitched fiddle playing loud and fast above the bellow of a diatonic ac...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Peknik, Patricia (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Subjects:	United States-History. Civilization > History. Social history. Music. Civilization. History.