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Cajun and zydeco dance music in Northern California [electronic resource] : modern pleasures in a postmodern world / Mark F. DeWitt.

By: DeWitt, Mark F.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: American made music series.Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008Description: viii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Cajun music -- California, Northern -- History and criticism | Zydeco music -- California, Northern -- History and criticism | Folk dance music -- California, Northern -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 781.62/410763 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Prelude: Down at the twist and shout -- Identity issues, research methods, and ethnography -- Music, dance, and social capital -- Wartime and postwar Creole migration to California -- Further Creole migration and bridging to other social networks -- Folk revival connection: The musicians -- Folk revival connection: The dancers -- Later Gulf Coast arrivals.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-266), discography (p. 267-269), filmography (p. 271) and index.

Prelude: Down at the twist and shout -- Identity issues, research methods, and ethnography -- Music, dance, and social capital -- Wartime and postwar Creole migration to California -- Further Creole migration and bridging to other social networks -- Folk revival connection: The musicians -- Folk revival connection: The dancers -- Later Gulf Coast arrivals.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.