Excerpt - Front Matter: "... rst half of the twentieth century, well-established traditions such as Cajundancemusic migrated beyond the confi nes of Acadiana as musicians sought ..."
Excerpt - page 120: "... Bayou Boogie. Filé from Lafayette, Louisiana, offered up accordion based dance and traditionalCajunmusic and were the first group to christen the new designation. ..."
Excerpt - page 166: "... music stage, where a large preteen ensemble is singing a traditional French two-step. "So those kids are playing Cajun musiceven though they're, like, eight years old?" "That's Cajun, bro." ..."
Excerpt - page 4: "... arranging do not demonstrate ignorance but rather communicate knowledge of Cajun culture at multiple levels of sophis- tication: casual music listener, country music fan, Cajun ... so that one may easily dance to it as a Cajun two-step, ..."
Excerpt - page 63: "... and weekends he and his band, the Balfa Brothers, played traditionalCajunmusic in dance halls throughout south Louisiana, just as they had since the ..."
Excerpt - page 6: "... coupling vivid, folksy lyrics with the animated beat of a traditional two-step: Hey little Cajun girl, let's go, Allons au village. We'll eat some fricassé ..."
Excerpt - page 103: "... listening to our old battery-operated radio." Whereas people of the Cajun bayous would play, listen, and dance to traditional rural Cajunmusic, Allan explains that he could sense a sea change in ..."
