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 Music
1. Social Music
2. Early Commercial Era
3. A Heterogeneous Tradition
4. Becoming the Folk
5. Cajun Swing Era
6. The Modern Cajun Sound
7. Cajun National Anthem
8. A New Mental World
Epilogue: Escaping Isolation
Endnotes
Bibliography
Cajun Redux: A Discographic Essay of Early Cajun Music Reissues on Compact Disk

Series	American Musicspheres