Cajun and Creole culture

Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877

Accordion Dreams : A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music

Angola to Zydeco: Louisiana Lives

Cajun and Creole Folktales Collected and Annotated

Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et créoles

Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World

Cajun Country

Cajun Foodways

Cajun Mardi Gras Masks

Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History

The Cajuns: Americanization of a People

Canoeing Louisiana

Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America

Christmas Stories from Louisiana

Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana

Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz

Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country

Culture after the Hurricanes: Rhetoric and Reinvention on the Gulf Coast

Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities

Losing Ground: Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana

Louisiana

Louisiana Cookery

Louisiana Dayride: Fifty-two Short Trips from New Orleans

Louisiana Fiddlers

Louisiana Rambles: Exploring America's Cajun and Creole Heartland

Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole

Mardi Gras, Gumbo, and Zydeco: Readings in Louisiana Culture

New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories

Saving Louisiana? The Battle for Coastal Wetlands

Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues

Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana

TABASCO®: An Illustrated History

Working the Field: Accounts from French Louisiana

You Are Where You Eat: Stories and Recipes from the Neighborhoods of New Orleans

Zydeco!

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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