9783319974231-3319974238-French Louisiana Music and Its Patrons: The Popularization and Transformation of a Regional Sound

French Louisiana Music and Its Patrons: The Popularization and Transformation of a Regional Sound

ISBN-13: 9783319974231
ISBN-10: 3319974238
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Author: Patricia Peknik
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover 233 pages
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ISBN-13: 9783319974231
ISBN-10: 3319974238
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Author: Patricia Peknik
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover 233 pages

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French Louisiana Music and Its Patrons: The Popularization and Transformation of a Regional Sound (ISBN-13: 9783319974231 and ISBN-10: 3319974238), written by authors Patricia Peknik, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Musical Genres (Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent French Louisiana Music and Its Patrons: The Popularization and Transformation of a Regional Sound (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Musical Genres books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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 accordion. With lyrics about disaster and heartache sung cheerfully in a French dialect, the effect is dissonant and haunting. French Louisiana music was largely ignored in mainstream music culture, except by a handful of collectors, scholars, and commercial promoters who sought to popularize it. From the first recordings in the 1920s to the transformation of the genre by the 1970s, the spread of this regional sound was driven by local, national, and international elites who saw the music’s traditions and performers in the context of larger social, political, and cultural developments, including the folk revival and the civil rights and ethnic revival movements. Patricia Peknik illuminates how the music’s history and meaning were interpreted by a variety of actors who brought the genre onto a national and global stage, revealing the many interests at work in the popularization of a regional music.

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