Louisiana native Ryan André Brasseaux is the Dean of Davenport College and Lecturer in American Studies at Yale University. A former Research Associate for public radio's American Routes hosted by Nick Spitzer, Brasseaux has served as a Cajun cultural expert for the National Council for the Traditional Arts, Associated Press, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, National Film Board of Canada, and the Food Network. He lives on Yale's campus with his wife Jessika and their two children Anne Elise and Joseph Emile.

• Acknowedgements Preface Introduction: Framing Cajun Music 1. Social Music2. Early Commercial Era3. A Heterogeneous Tradition4. Becoming the Folk5. Cajun Swing Era6. The Modern Cajun Sound7. Cajun National Anthem8. A New Mental WorldEpilogue: Escaping Isolation Endnotes Bibliography Cajun Redux: A Discographic Essay of Early Cajun Music Reissues on Compact Disk

Brasseaux forges revelatory new terrain in the study of Cajun music...[He] demonstrates an impressive and vast familiarity of recorded period music produced from inside and outside of Louisiana.

Louisiana native Ryan André Brasseaux is the Dean of Davenport College and Lecturer in American Studies at Yale University. A former Research Associate for public radio's American Routes hosted by Nick Spitzer, Brasseaux has served as a Cajun cultural expert for the National Council for the Traditional Arts, Associated Press, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, National Film Board of Canada, and the Food Network. He lives on Yale's campus with his wife Jessika and their two children Anne Elise and Joseph Emile.

• Acknowedgements Preface Introduction: Framing Cajun Music 1. Social Music2. Early Commercial Era3. A Heterogeneous Tradition4. Becoming the Folk5. Cajun Swing Era6. The Modern Cajun Sound7. Cajun National Anthem8. A New Mental WorldEpilogue: Escaping Isolation Endnotes Bibliography Cajun Redux: A Discographic Essay of Early Cajun Music Reissues on Compact Disk

Brasseaux forges revelatory new terrain in the study of Cajun music...[He] demonstrates an impressive and vast familiarity of recorded period music produced from inside and outside of Louisiana.

Louisiana native Ryan André Brasseaux is the Dean of Davenport College and Lecturer in American Studies at Yale University. A former Research Associate for public radio's American Routes hosted by Nick Spitzer, Brasseaux has served as a Cajun cultural expert for the National Council for the Traditional Arts, Associated Press, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, National Film Board of Canada, and the Food Network. He lives on Yale's campus with his wife Jessika and their two children Anne Elise and Joseph Emile.

• Acknowedgements Preface Introduction: Framing Cajun Music 1. Social Music2. Early Commercial Era3. A Heterogeneous Tradition4. Becoming the Folk5. Cajun Swing Era6. The Modern Cajun Sound7. Cajun National Anthem8. A New Mental WorldEpilogue: Escaping Isolation Endnotes Bibliography Cajun Redux: A Discographic Essay of Early Cajun Music Reissues on Compact Disk

Brasseaux forges revelatory new terrain in the study of Cajun music...[He] demonstrates an impressive and vast familiarity of recorded period music produced from inside and outside of Louisiana.