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Creole Soul: Zydeco Lives is an exquisitely photographed volume of
interviews with contemporary zydeco musicians. Featuring the voices
of zydeco’s venerable senior generation and its current agents of
change, this book celebrates a musical world full of passion,
energy, cowboy hats and boots, banging bass, horse trailers, joy,
and dazzling dance moves. Author Burt Feintuch captures an
important American music in the process of significant—and
sometimes controversial—change. Creole Soul draws us into
conversations with zydeco musicians from Texas and Louisiana, most
of them bandleaders, including Ed Poullard, Lawrence "Black"
Ardoin, Step Rideau, Brian Jack, Jerome Batiste, Ruben Moreno,
Nathan Williams Jr., Leroy Thomas, Corey Ledet, Sean Ardoin, and
Dwayne Dopsie. Some of the interviewees represent the contemporary
scene and are among today’s most popular performers along the
Creole Corridor. Others are rooted in older French music forms and
are especially well qualified to talk about zydeco’s origins. The
musicians speak freely, whether discussing the death of a famed
musician or describing a memorable performance, such as when Boozoo
Chavis played the accordion while dripping blood on stage shortly
after a freak barbeque-building accident that sliced off parts of
two of his fingers. They address the influence of rap on today’s
zydeco music and discuss how to pass music along to a younger
generation—and how not to. They weigh the merits of the old-time
zydeco clubs versus today’s casinos and African American
trailrides, which come complete with horses and the loudest zydeco
bands you can imagine. In Creole Soul, zydeco musicians give an
unprecedented look into their lives, their music, and their
culture.
An essential work, the first to celebrate, document, and interpret
New England's unique regional history and culture Often defined by
the familiar images of taciturn Yankees, town meetings, maple
syrup, and rocky seacoasts, New England is both a distinctively
American place and a distinctive place within America. Yet these
images present only one aspect of the richly varied region that is
New England in the twenty-first century. Today traditional scenes
of white-clapboard buildings surrounding an idyllic village green,
hillside farms, and red-brick mills rub shoulders with advanced
research centers, nuclear power plants, and urban neighborhoods of
immigrants from around the globe. In entries written by leading
authorities in the field, The Encyclopedia of New England presents
a comprehensive view of this important region, past and present.
Both authoritative and entertaining, this single-volume reference
will be an invaluable resource for the scholar and an irresistible
pageturner for the browser. The Encyclopedia contains * 1,300
alphabetically arranged entries examining significant people,
places, events, ideas,and artifacts * Fascinating and little-known
facts that rarely appear in history books * More than 500
illustrations and maps * Contributions from nearly 1,000
distinguished scholars and writers, including journalists,
academics, and specialists from museums, industries, and historical
societies * 1.5 million words in 22 thematic sections, ranging from
agriculture to tourism, each with an introduction by a leading
specialist in the field * Extensive cross-references and a full
index
In 1899, a fundraising program for Berea College featured a group
of students from the mountains of eastern Kentucky singing
traditional songs from their homes. The audience was entranced.
That small en-counter at the end of the last century lies near the
beginning of an unparalleled national -- and international --
fascination with the indigenous music of a single state. Kentucky
has long figured prominently in our national sense of traditional
music. Over the years, a diverse group of people -- reformers,
enthusiasts, the musically literate and the musically illiterate,
radicals, liberals, a British gentleman and his woman companion,
amateurs, local residents, and academics -- have been sufficiently
captivated by that music to have devoted considerable energy to
harvesting it from its fertile ground, studying its various
manifestations, and considering its many performers. Kentucky
Folkmusic: An Annotated Bibliography is a guide to the literature
of this remarkable music. More than seven hundred entries, each
with an evaluative annotation, comprise the largest bibliographic
resource for the folkmusic of any state or region in North America.
Divided into eight sections, the bibliography covers collections
and anthologies; fieldworkers and scholars; singers, musicians, and
other performers; text-centered studies; studies of history,
context, and style; festivals; dance; and discographies,
check-lists, and other reference tools. A subject index, an author
index, and an index of periodicals provide access to the materials.
From early hymnals and songsters to Kentucky performers of
traditional music, the bibliography is a comprehensive guide to
music which has for many years been one of the major emblems of
American traditional music.
In New Orleans, music screams. It honks. It blats. It wails. It
purrs. It messes with time. It messes with pitch. It messes with
your feet. It messes with your head. One musician leads to another;
traditions overlap, intertwine, nourish each other; and everyone
seems to know everyone else. From traditional jazz through rhythm
and blues and rock 'n' roll to sissy bounce, in second-line
parades, from the streets to clubs and festivals, the music seems
unending. In Talking New Orleans Music, author Burt Feintuch has
pursued a decades-long fascination with the music of this singular
city. Thinking about the devastation--not only material but also
cultural--caused by the levees breaking in 2005, he began a series
of conversations with master New Orleans musicians, talking about
their lives, the cultural contexts of their music, their
experiences during and after Katrina, and their city. Photographer
Gary Samson joined him, adding a compelling visual dimension to the
book. Here you will find intimate and revealing interviews with
eleven of the city's most celebrated musicians and
culture-bearers--Soul Queen Irma Thomas, Walter ""Wolfman""
Washington, Charmaine Neville, John Boutte, Dr. Michael White,
Deacon John Moore, Cajun bandleader Bruce Daigrepont, Zion
Harmonizer Brazella Briscoe, producer Scott Billington, as well as
Christie Jourdain and Janine Waters of the Original Pinettes, New
Orleans's only all-woman brass band. Feintuch's interviews and
Samson's sixty-five color photographs create a powerful portrait of
an American place like no other and its worlds of music.
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