Brasseaux, Ryan Andre - Cajun Breakdown

Cajun Breakdown examines the social and cultural roots of Cajun music's development through 1950. The idiom's synthetic nature suggests an extensive and intensive dialogue with popular culture that extinguishes the myth that Cajuns were an insular folk group astray in the American South

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CONTENTS

Acknowedgements, Preface, Introduction: Framing Cajun Music1. Social Music

Series	American Musicspheres