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The following articles have appeared in the Louisiana Folklife Festival program books, the Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival program book, and other publications. They are listed in the following categories.
General Information
Regional and Cultural Groups
New Populations -- Louisiana's Immigrant and Refugee Communities
Children and Family Folklore
Material Culture/Crafts and Foodways
Music Traditions
Occupational Traditions
Oral Traditions
Ritual Traditions
Folklore and Literature
Public Folklore and Documentation Tools
Essays for Students
General Information
The Creole State: An Introduction to Louisiana Traditional Culture - Nicholas R. Spitzer
Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State - Nicholas R. Spitzer, editor
Louisiana’s Traditional Cultures: An Overview - Maida Owens
Thinking About Tradition - Nalini Raghavan
A History of Folklife Research in Louisiana - F. A. de Caro
Folklore And Ethnicity: Some Theoretical Considerations - Rosan A. Jordan
Regional and Cultural Groups
A Commentary: African Cultural Retentions in Louisiana -
Charles E. Siler
Caddo Homecoming -
Dayna Bowker Lee
The Boys of Summer: African Americans and Baseball in Plaquemines Parish - Cheryl Hogan
Cajun Women and the Country Mardi Gras Tradition - Carolyn Ware
Cane Brakes, High Water,
Drought: The Mississippi Delta - Tom Rankin
Cane River Creole Community - Dayna Bowker Lee
Choctaw Heritage of Louisiana and Mississippi - Deborah Boykin
Croatians in Southeastern Louisiana -- Overview
- Carolyn Ware
Customs, Traditions, and Folklore of a Rural
Southern Italian-American Community - Harry P. Becnel, Jr.
Cultivating Folk Buds: The Horti-culture of Folk Studies - Barry Jean Ancelet
Delta Pieces: Northeast Louisiana Folklife - Susan Roach and Maida Owens, eds.
East Baton Rouge and Livingston Parishes - Maida Owens Bergeron and Joyce Marie
Jackson
España y La Louisiana -
H.F. "Pete" Gregory
Excerpts from The Anonymous Breaux Manuscript - Translated by George Reinecke
From Evangeline Hot Sauce to Cajun Ice: Signs of Ethnicity in South Louisiana- Barry Jean Ancelet
Grand Isle Dairies (audio essay)- Earl Robichaux
Gefilte Fish in the Land of the Kingfish: Jewish Life in Louisiana - Susan Levitas
Getting to Gemütlichkeit: German History and Culture in Southeast Louisiana- Laura Westbrook
Germans in Southeast Louisiana -- In Our Own Words: Reflections on German American Life in Louisiana- Laura Westbrook
Gifts From The Hills: North Central Louisiana Folk Traditions -
by Susan Roach
He's The Prettiest: A Tribute to Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana -
by Kalamu ya Salaam (with an introduction by William Fagaly)
Houma Indian Arts: A Triptych - by Frédéric Allamel
Indians and Folklife in the Florida Parishes - H. F. "Pete Gregory
Italian Traditions in Independence, Louisiana - Laura Westbrook
Jewish Folklore
in Northeastern Louisiana - Ben Sandmel
The Felicanas - Susan Garrett Davis
The Florida Parishes: An Overview - Joel Gardner
Hungarian Folklife in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana - Virginia Romero
The Invisible Population: Mexicans and Central Americans in Northern and Central Louisiana - Lisa Abney
Los Isleños and Hurricane Katrina - Sara-Ann Harris
Louisiana French Folklore and Folklife - Barry J. Ancelet
Louisiana
Native Americans: An Overview - H. F. "Pete" Gregory
Making a Home in the Delta: Women and the Domestic Environment - Deborah Boykin
Mardi Gras
Indians: Culture and Community Empowerment - Michael Smith
The National and Cultural Groups of New Orleans - George F. Reinecke
Noms de Bayou: French Place Names in North Louisiana - Kelby Ouchley
North Louisiana
Folklife Traditions and Research: An Overview - Susan Roach
The Northshore - St. Tammany Parish - Janice Dee
Gilbert
Ouachita River Mounds: A
Five Millennium Mystery - Lori Tucker
"A Promise From The Sun:" The Folklife Traditions Of Louisiana Indians - H. F. 'Pete' Gregory
The Piney Woods - Tangipahoa, St. Helena, Washington Parishes - Joy J. Jackson
Roots of the Cedar: The Lebanese Heritage in Louisiana- Yvonne Nassar Saloom and I. Bruce Turner
The Folk Art of Alvin Batiste: Louisiana Culture Painted- Diana F. Buckley
Splittin' on the Grain: Folk Art In Clifton, Louisiana- Shari Miller and Miriam Rich
The Talimali Band of Apalachee- Dayna Bowker Lee
Le Voisinage: Evolution of Community in
Cajun Country - Dana David
Vietnamese Folklife in New Orleans - Kathy Kilbourne
West of the Ouachita: Conserving the Heritage of the Pine Hills and River Valley of North
West Louisiana - Susan Roach
New Populations -- Louisiana's Immigrant and Refugee Communities
The Many Faces of the Bayou State: New Populations in Louisiana - Maida Owens and Laura Marcus Green
Balance of Grace and Strength: Chinese Folk Dancing in South Louisiana - Guiyuan Wang
Carnival, Feast Days, and House Parties: Cuban Celebrations in Louisiana after 1960 - Tomás Montoya González with T. Ariana Hall
Luck, Peace, and Prosperity: Celebrating Chinese New Year in Shreveport - Sheila Richmond
Dancing in the Light: The Nine-Day Festival of Navaratri in South Louisiana - Daria Woodside
The Difference Between a House and a Home: Latino Experiences in Baton Rouge - Dominic Bordelon
Domestic Customs Among Muslim Women In The Greater New Orleans Area - Denese Neu
From Punta to Chumba: Garifuna Music and Dance in New Orleans - Amy Serrano
Getting to Gemütlichkeit: German History and Culture in Southeast Louisiana - Laura Westbrook
The Hispanic Population of Rural Central Louisiana and Their Traditions - William Manger
Honduran Identity within South Louisiana Culture - Denese Neu
A Hurricane is Nothing - Kathleen Carlin
Indian Classical Music in South Louisiana - Andrew McLean
Japanese Culture and Dance in Southeast Louisiana - Laura Westbrook
"Looks Very Simple, But Takes a Lot of Time": Diana Gay's GuaTamales - Guatemalan Tamales - Mandy McClain with Susan Roach
Mabuhay Pilipino!: Filipino Culture and Dance in Southeast Louisiana - Laura Westbrook
Making Piñatas: Celebration Mexican-Style in North Louisiana - Barbara Chumley and Susan Roach
The Mexican Community of Forest Hill, Louisiana - William Manger
Moon Cakes, Knotting, and Feng Shui: A Peek of Chinese Culture in Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Jun Zou
Music and Dance in South Louisiana's Cuban Community - Tomás Montoya González with T. Ariana Hall
Musicians in the Guatemalan Community of New Orleans - Devon Robbie
"My Way To Show Baton Rouge I'm Here": Latino Music and Dance in Baton Rouge - Dominic Bordelon
Offerings to Kings and Buddha: Vietnamese Ritual Activities at Chua Bo De: The Vietnamese Buddhist Community in New Orleans Area - Allison Truitt
Places Called Home: Folk Traditions among Muslim Immigrants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Jocelyn Donlon
Preserving Vietnamese Culture and Language in Southern Louisiana: Altars as Symbols of Identity - Emma Tomingas-Hatch
Rangoli - An Indian Custom of Welcome - Laura Westbrook
Ritual Traditions of Maria Lopez: From Mexico to Louisiana - Susan Roach
Sabor Latino: Central American Folk Traditions in New Orleans - Shana Walton
A Sampling of Indian Arts and Traditions in Louisiana. - Maida Owens, ed.
A Sampling of Laotian Arts and Traditions in Louisiana - Maida Owens, ed.
A Sampling of Vietnamese Arts and Traditions in Louisiana - Maida Owens, ed.
Satyanarayana Puja: A Hindu Prayer Service in South Louisiana - Daria Woodside
Songkran: Laotian New Year in South Louisiana - Hardy Jones, Jr.
The Story of La Purisima and La Griteria: A Unique Nicaraguan Sacred Tradition Adapted to Louisiana - Denese Neu
Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, in the New Orleans Vietnamese Community - Kathleen Carlin and Cam-Thanh Tran
Thai Customs of Loy Krathong: Festival of the Floating Lotus - Laura Westbrook
Vietnamese Lion / Dragon Dance: Excerpts from a Conversation between Laura Westbrook and Johnny Huynh - Laura Westbrook
Children and Family Folklore
African American Oral Traditions in Louisiana - Mona Lisa Saloy
An Atchafalaya Childhood: Boyhood Recollections of Musician & Boatbuilder Faren Serrette- As collected by Laura Renée Westbrook
Bonfires on the Levee: A Family Tradition in Ascension Parish - Carol Gravois
If Your Eggs Are Cracked, Please Step Down: Easter Egg Knocking in Marksville - Sheri Lane Dunbar
The Origami of Baton Rouge Schoolgirls: Games and Notes on Looseleaf Paper - Lisa Noland
Sample Fieldnotes: Teen Memories of Grade School Traditions - Maida Owens
"Steal-the-Flag: A Game Played in South Louisiana." - Malcolm Comeaux
Material Culture/Crafts and Foodways
All-Day Singing and Dinner on the Ground - Shana Walton
Binding a Family: Examining Job's Tears Rosaries as Artifacts of Kinship - Keagan LeJeune
Bringing Food and Buying Fish: The Significance of the Fishboat to Isolated Communities in the Atchafalaya Basin - Jim Delahoussaye
Choctaw Split Cane Basketry - Dayna Bowker Lee
Crafts from the "Back Days" - Claude Medford
Fait à la Main: About Louisiana Crafts - Maida Owens, ed.
Feeling Like Choupique on the Blacktop? Rx: Daily doses of folk culture in context - C. Ray Brassieur
Folk Art in the Clifton Community- Shari Miller and Miriam Rich
Folk Crafts: A Hand-Me-Down Tradition - C. Ray Brassieur
Folk Boats of Louisiana - Malcolm Comeaux
From Custom to Coffee Cake: The Commodification of the Louisiana King Cake- Janet Ryland
Georgie and Allen Manuel and Cajun Wire Screen Masks - Ronnie E. Roshto
"In My Father’s
House": North Louisiana Gravehouses as Art and Technology - Marcy Frantom
"Keep Your Mind and Your Hands Busy:" Expressive Dimensions of the Lone Quilter - Susan Roach
Louisiana Boatbuilding: An Unfathomed Fortune - C. Ray Brassieur
Louisiana Cooking: A Way of Life - Ulysses S. Ricard
Louisiana’s Food Traditions: An Insider’s Guide - Maida Owens
Louisiana Folk Crafts: An Overview- Rosan A. Jordan, F. A. de Caro, Susan Roach-Lankford, and Nicholas R. Spitzer
Louisiana Folk Houses- Milton B. Newton
Making Tamales in Northwestern Louisiana - Dayna Bowker Lee
Material Cultural Landscape of the
Florida Parishes in Historical Perspective - Milton B. Newton, Jr.
Places They Remember: The Art of Clementine Hunter and Sarah Albritton - Susan Roach and Peter Jones
Louisiana Roadside Memorials: Negotiating an Emerging Tradition - Maida Owens
"Something About Being Anonymous": The New Orleans Mardi Gras Mask Market - Frank de Caro
The Piecemakers - Marion P. Martin
Textile Uses in the Home of Central Louisiana Czechs - Rose Walker
Traditional Quiltmaking in Louisiana - Susan Roach
Quilts as Women's Documents: The Louisiana Quilt Documentation Project - Susan Roach and Laura Westbrook
Where Mind and Metal Meet: Louisiana Metal Boats - John Laudun
Music Traditions
At Play in the Delta - Michael Luster
Beyond Urban Borders: Unveiling New Discourses on the Rural Jazz Narrative in the River Road Region - Joyce Marie Jackson
Brownie Ford: Lifelines of a Woods Cowyboy - Nicholas R. Spitzer
Cajun and Zydeco Music Traditions - Barry Ancelet
Cajun Music: Alive and Well in Louisiana - Ann Savoy
Cajun Music as Oral Poetry - Carolyn Ware
Clapping On Two and Four- Kalamu ya Salaam
Country
Chameleons: Cajuns on the Louisiana Hayride - Tracey E. W. Laird
Crescent City Country: Hillbilly Music in New Orleans - J. Michael Luster
"Don’t Give Up Your Day Job:" Country Music - Terry A. Seelinger
"Everyone Rockin' Together": Continuity and Creativity in the Louisiana Delta Easter Rock - Susan Roach
Fiddling in Louisiana - Ron Yule
"From Country to City: The Blues and Gospel in the Florida Parishes and Baton Rouge
- Ben Sandmel
Hayride Boogie: Blues, Rockabilly and Soul from the Louisiana Hill and Delta Country - Michael Luster
Introduction and Use of Accordions in Cajun Music - Malcolm L. Comeaux
J. D. Miller and Floyd Soileau: A Comparison of Two Small Town Recordmen of Acadiana - Shane Bernard
The Hiding and Watching Louisiana I-20 Blues - Nicholas Rey Deriso
Gospel Music in Louisiana
The Gospel Train: The Zion Travelers Spiritual Singers - Dr. Joyce Jackson
"Lomax in Louisiana: Trials and Triumph". - Barry Ancelet
Louisiana: A Guitarist's Paradise - Ben Sandmel
Louisiana Folk And Regional Popular Music Traditions On Records And The Radio: An Historical Overview With Suggestions For Future Research - Stephen R. Tucker
Making Music: The Art of Hand-built Stringed Instruments - Susan Roach
Mr. K-Doe Goes to Washington: The
Monumental New Orleans R&B Star Barnstorms the Capital City - Ben Sandmel
The Musical and Cultural Roots of Louisiana Creole and Zydeco Fiddle Traditions - D ‘Jalma Garnier
Music of the Black Churches - Joyce M. Jackson
The North Louisiana String Band - Susan Roach
Pretty, Little, and Fickle: Images of Women in Cajun Music - Laura Westbrook
Public and Private Domains of Cajun Women Musicians in Southwest Louisiana - Lisa Richardson
Rockin’ the Country, North Louisiana Style - Michael Luster
Since Ol' Gabriel's Time: Hezekiah and the Houserockers Liner Notes - David Evans
The Treasured Traditions of Louisiana Music - Ben Sandmel
Twisting at the Fais Do Do: Swamp Pop in South Louisiana - Shane K. Bernard
Occupational Traditions
Big River Traditions: Folklife on the Mississippi River - Ben Sandmel
Calling The Cotton Press - Donald W. Hatley
Deer Hunting with Dogs - Terry Jones
The McNeill Street Pumping Station- Dayna Bowker Lee
"A Man Can Stand, Yeah:" Ranching Traditions in Louisiana - Jane Vidrine
Oilfield Lore - Ben Sandmel
More than Just a Trade: Master Craftsmen of the Building Arts - Interviews compiled by Laura Westbrook
Occupational Folklife In Louisiana
- George A. Stokes
Riding Clubs in Central Louisiana
Lore - Rolanda Teal
The Rolling Store - John L. Doughty, Jr.
Shrimping in Louisiana: Overview of a Tradition - Laura Landry
Traditional Boats of Catahoula Lake - Dayna Bowker Lee
Trappers of the Barataria: Nutria Traditions - Jon and Jocelyn Donlon
Waiting for Babies: Lay Midwives in Louisiana- Maida Owens
"Willing to Take A Risk:" The Folklore of Cropdusting - Susan Roach and Janet Ryland
Working in the Delta - Susan Roach
Zydeco Trail Ride: Creole Cowboys at Work and Play - Nick Spitzer
Oral Traditions
African American Toast Tradition - Mona Lisa Saloy
"The Big One": Deer Hunting in Northeast Louisiana - Janery Wylie
Cars and Katrina at our house - Chris Goertzen
Conversing with the Land of Dreams: Disaster Humor and Public Discourse - Jason Saul
Louisiana French Oral Literature: An Overview - Barry Jean Ancelet
Gambling Money Don't Have No Home: Playing Poker and Shooting Dice in the Louisiana Delta - Don W. Hatley
The Hub Lake Gold: An Analysis of A Legend - John L. Doughty, Jr.
Individual & Communal Identity after Hurricane Rita: A Collaborative Essay - Corliss Badeau, Keagan Lejeune, Stella Nesanovich, and Wendy Whelan-Stewart
Katrina: The Urban Legends Begin: A Memoir with Commentary - Frank de Caro
Landmark of the Koroa - Sam Dickenson
Languages And Linguistic Research In Louisiana - J. L. Dillard
"Legends, Local Identity, and a New Orleans Cookbook." - Frank de Caro
French Louisiana Oral Literature: An Overview - Barry Jean Ancelet
Memoires from Metairie: 3 Students from the Metairie Park Country Day School Tell Their Stories - Adeem Nachabe, Jessica Cohn-Phillips, and Amelia Kish
Political Pomp: Political Storytelling in Louisiana- C. Renee Harvison
Still Laughing to Keep from Crying: Black Humor - Mona Lisa Saloy
Taking Cajun Identity on the Road: Vacation Stories from Terrebonne Parish - Shana Walton
The Stories of the Old People: Native American Storytelling - H. F. "Pete" Gregory
Time and Lowland Louisianans: Time Perspectives in College Student Narratives of their Hurricane Katrina Experiences - Donna Bonner
Storytelling Traditions in Louisiana - C. Renee Harvison
Swapping Stories in Louisiana -
Maida Owens and Carl Lindahl
Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana - Carl Lindahl, Maida Owens, and C. Renee
Harvison
An Urban Legend: Workers Buried in a Concrete Piling of the U.S. 190 Mississippi River
Bridge - from the Smiley Anders column, Baton Rouge Advocate
Ritual Traditions
A Kinder, Gentler St. Nicholas: Transformation and Meaning in a "Louisiana German" Tradition - Rocky L. Sexton
Asserting Tradition: The Building and Maintenance of African-American Baptist Rock Ceremony in Northeast Louisiana - Janet L. Sturman
Charlene Richard: Folk Veneration Among the Cajuns - Marcia Gaudet
Charlene Richard: Narrative, Transmission, & Function of a Contemporary Saint Legend - Donna McGee Onebane
Christmas Bonfires In South Louisiana: Tradition And Innovation - Marcia Gaudet
Christmas Eve Bonfires & The Mayor - William F. Fagan
Contemporary Cauchemar: Experience, Belief, Prevention - Katherine Roberts
Cultural Catholicism in Cajun-Creole Louisiana - Marcia Gaudet
Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras- Pat Mire
Decorating for the Shrimp Fleet Blessing: Chauvin, Louisiana - Betsy Gordon
"Discovering Le Saint Suaire: Cajun Spirituality and an Unauthorized Devotional." - Anne Frugé
Emerging New Orleans Mardi Gras Traditions: The St. Joan of Arc Parade and the Red Beans Krewe, 2010 - Frank de Caro
Field Notes on All Saints' Day, 1985 and 1986 - Rosan Augusta Jordan and Frank de Caro
French Louisiana Traiteurs - Julia Swett
A Good Friday Tradition: The Nine-Church Pilgrimage - Lisa Holzenthal Lewis
Knowing How to Bury Your Dead: The Significance of the Post-Burial Home Visit - Keagan LeJeune
"I Read the Rules Backward": Women, Symbolic Inversion, and the Cajun Mardi Gras Run - Carolyn E. Ware
La Quiñceanara: Towards an Ethnographic Analysis of a Life-Cycle Ritual - Norma Elia Cantú
"Like A River Flowing with Living Water:" Worshiping in the Mississippi Delta - Joyce Marie Jackson
Louisiana Celebrations Rooted in Tradition - Jane Vidrine
Neither Spared nor Spoiled: The Mardi Gras Chase in Choupic, Louisiana - Madeline
Domangue Cagle
The Performance Ritual of Saint Joseph's Day: A Stranger at the Door - Leslie A. Wade
Ritual Spaces in Traditional Louisiana Communities: Italian, Nicaraguan, and Vietnamese Altars - Carolyn Ware
The Saint Ann Shrine in New Orleans: Popular Catholicism in Local, National, & International Contexts - David C. Estes
St. Expedito’s Role in South Louisiana Catholicism, in New Orleans and in the Italian-American Community near Independence, Louisiana - Karen Williams
"Take Me to the Water:" African American River Baptism - Annie Staten and Susan
Roach
Traditional Medicines - Claude Medford
Traiteurs and Their Power of Healing: The Story of Doris Bergeron - Ellen M. Daigle
The Transformation and Healing Power of the Labyrinth: An Emerging Vernacular Belief Community - Maida Owens
The Varieties of Mardi Gras - Frank de Caro
'You Gotta Go Crazy Before You Can Be a Minister' Accessing a Speaking Role in the Primitive Baptist Church - Susan Roach
Folklore and Literature
In His Own Hand: The Correspondence of Edmond G. Landry from Carville, Louisiana- Claire Manes
Gaines' Fifteen Narrators: Narrative Styles and Storytelling Technique in A Gathering of Old Men - Marcia Gaudet
Louisiana Foodways in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying- Courtney Ramsay
Perceptions and Misconceptions in James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux Novels - Patricia Gaitely
"Performing Fiction(s)/Performing Folklore: "Magical Realism" as a a Literary Trope/Folklore as Embedded Belief." - Elaine J. Lawless
"Zora Neale Hurston on River Road: Portrait of Algiers, New Orleans, and Her Fieldwork" - Mona Lisa Saloy
Public Folklore and Documentation Tools
Cemetery Preservation Guide - Sheila Richmond
Cultural Tourism in Cajun Country: Shotgun Wedding or Marriage in Heaven? - Barry Jean Ancelet
Documenting Quilting - Susan Roach
Festival, Cultural Tourism, and the Louisiana Folklife Program- Maida Owens
Fieldwork Basics Overview- Paddy Bowman, Sylvia Bienvenu, and Maida Owens
Government Gives Tradition the Go-Ahead: The Atchafalaya Welcome Center's Role in Hurricane Katrina Recovery - Jocelyn H. Donlon & Jon G. Donlon
In the Wake of the Hurricanes Research Coalition: A History - Susan Roach
Is "Folk" a Four-Letter Word?- John Laudun
Keeping It Alive: Cultural Conservation through Apprenticeships- Sheri Dunbar and Maida Owens
Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State - Nicholas R. Spitzer, ed.
Learning from Your Community: Folklore and Video in the Schools, A Classroom Curriculum for Grades 4-8 - Gail Matthews-DeNatale and Don Patterson
Mardi Gras and the Media: Who's Fooling Whom - Barry Jean Ancelet
Oral History, Folklore, and Katrina - Alan H. Stein and Gene B. Preuss
Saving Your Own House: Folk Culture and Mitigation - H.F. "Pete" Gregory
Vernacular Power: The Social and Cultural Immplications of Katrina and Rita - Barry Jean Ancelet
Louisiana Folklore Miscellany Index - Marcia Gaudet, ed.
Essays for Students
Cajun Wedding Traditions - Jane Vidrine (For 4th graders)
Conducting An Interview (For 8th Graders)
It's a Very Pink Day in My Neighborhood: Spanish Town, Baton Rouge (For 8th Graders)
Louisiana's Three Folk Regions (For 8th Graders)
The Hungarians of Louisiana: An Overview
What is Folklife and Why Study It? (For 8th Graders)
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