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He highlighted Stivale's effective use of Deleuze and Guattari's theories to analyze Cajun cultural practices and praises the book for its rich, informative presentation of Cajun music and dance. Conley noted that the book manages to protect Cajun culture from becoming an inert object of history and folklore by consistently destabilizing ...
Bayou Ruler is an album by the American band Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, released in 1998. [2] [3] A couple of its English-language songs were regional hits, although they proved controversial to some Cajun traditionalists.
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys are an American Cajun band from southern Louisiana. [1] The band formed in 1988 and has since recorded 10 albums, nine of which are on Rounder Records . The band includes Steve Riley ( accordion , b. 1969), David Greely ( fiddle ), Sam Broussard ( guitar ), Burke Riley (drums/guitar) and Philippe Billeaudeaux ...
The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music Vol. 2 (1974) J'ai Vu le Loup, Le Renard et la Belette (1976, re-released Rounder Records, 1988) The Balfa Brothers and Nathan Abshire: The 1970 NYC Cajun Concert (Field Recorders Collective, 2008) The Balfa Family: A Retrospective - Festivals Acadiens et Créoles 1977-2010 (Valcour Records, 2012) [3]
When bands like the Balfa Brothers, Octa Clark and Hector Duhon, and the black Creole band Bois-Sec Ardoin and Canray began to appear and perform at prestigious national folk festivals like the Newport Folk Festival, the University of Chicago Folk Festival, and the National Folklife Festival, they inspired renewed interest in Louisiana in Cajun ...
It is one of the earliest known print sources of the tune for "Amazing Grace", given in The Virginia Harmony as "Harmony Grove" and used as a setting for the Isaac Watts hymn "There Is a Land of Pure Delight". [1] The "Amazing Grace" text was not set to this melody until the 1847 Southern Harmony, where the tune was called "New Britain".
Jole Blon or Jolie Blonde is a traditional Cajun waltz, often called "the Cajun national anthem" because of the popularity it has in Cajun culture. The song was popularized on a nationwide scale by a series of renditions and references in late 1940s country songs.
KLEB (1600 AM "The Rajun' Cajun") is a radio station in Golden Meadow, Louisiana, broadcasting a mix of swamp pop and traditional cajun music.In September 2019, it began to simulcast on K274DE 102.7 MHz, which broadcasts from the KLRZ tower facilities in Larose and allows the station's listening audience to choose between AM or FM.