Disenchanting les bons temps [electronic resource] : identity and authenticity in Cajun music and dance / Charles J. Stivale.

Author/Creator:

Stivale, Charles J.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions.
Post-contemporary interventions

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (233 p.)

Subjects:

Cajun music -- Louisiana -- History and criticism.
Folk dancing, Cajun -- Louisiana.
Cajuns -- Louisiana -- Social life and customs.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

Presents the complex and conflicting views of Cajun cultural heritage, identities, and their manifestation in musical and dance expression.

Contents:

Becoming-Cajun
(Geo)graphies of (dé)paysement : dislocation and unsettling in the Cajun music repertoire
"J'ai été au bal" : Cajun sights and sounds
Feeling the event : spaces of affects and the Cajun dance arena
Disenchanting les bons temps
Laissez le bons temps rouler, or, death and life in the cajun dance arena.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-209) and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

Contributor:

Fish, Stanley, editor., Editor,
Jameson, Fredric, editor., Editor,

ISBN:

1-282-92080-4
9786612920806
0-8223-8482-5

OCLC:

850218035

Publisher Number:

10.1515/9780822384823 doi

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