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Recommended Reading
What follows is a list of
publications and books on Louisiana folklife that are more readily
available. For a more thorough list, refer to the Louisiana
Folklife Bibliography.
- Ancelet,
Barry Jean. 1994. Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral
Tradition
- of South
Louisiana.
New York: Garland Publishing.
- Ancelet,
Barry Jean. 1999. Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens
cadiens et
- creoles. Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi.
- Ancelet,
Barry Jean. 1989. Cajun Music: Its Origins and Development.
Lafayette:
- University
of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies.
- Ancelet,
Barry Jean. 1989. "Capitaine Voyage Ton Flag": The
Traditional Cajun
- Country
Mardi Gras. Louisiana
Life Series, No. 1. Lafayette, LA: The Center for Louisiana Studies.
(P.O. Box 40831, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette,
LA 70504-0831).
- Ancelet,
Barry Jean, Jay Edwards, and Glen Pitre. 1991. Cajun Country.
Jackson:
- University
Press of Mississippi.
- Armistead,
Samuel G. 1992. The Spanish Tradition in Louisiana. Newark,
DE:
- Juan de
la Cuesta.
- Bernard,
Shane. 1996. Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm & Blues.
- Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi.
- Bodin, Ron.
1990. Voodoo, Past and Present. Louisiana Life Series,
No. 5.
- Lafayette,
Louisiana: The Center for Louisiana Studies (P.O. Box 40831,
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-0831).
- Colvin,
Thomas, A. 1978. Cane and Palmetto Basketry of the Choctaws
of St.
- Tammany
Parish, Lacombe, Louisiana. Mandeville, LA: Melba Colvin.
- Comeaux,
Malcolm. 1972. Atchafalaya Swamp Life Settlement and Folk
- Occupations. Geoscience and Man,
Vol II. Baton Rouge: LSU School of Geoscience.
- Cooke, John
and Mackie J-V Blanton. 1981. Perspectives on Ethnicity in
New
- Orleans.
New
Orleans, LA: The Committee on Ethnicity in New Orleans. (Department
of English, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148).
- de Caro,
F. A. 1990. Folklife in Louisiana Photography: Images of Tradition.
-
Baton
Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press.
- de Caro,
F. A. and R. A. Jordan. 1980. Louisiana Traditional Crafts.
Baton Rouge,
- La.: LSU
Union Gallery. (out of print, available in Louisiana libraries).
- Dunbar,
Sheri and Maida Owens. 1993. Keeping It Alive: Cultural Conservation
- Through
Apprenticeship--A Review of the Louisiana Folklife Apprenticeship
Program.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Folklife Program. Free.
- Fontenot,
Wonda, ed. 1994. 1994 Malaki Festival: A Community Reunion
to
- Celebrate
Rural African American Traditions. Opelousas, LA: Wannamuse Institute
for Arts, Culture, and Ethnic Studies.
- Fontenot,
Wonda. 1994. Secret Doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.
- Westport,
CT: Bergin and Garvey, Greenwood Publishing Group. (Available
from Bergin-Garvey/Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 88 Post
Road West, Westport, CT 06881.)
- Frantom,
Marcy, ed. 1993. Louisiana Folklife. Special Issue: African-American
- Folklife
in Louisiana, Volume
XVII, 1993 Issue. Natchitoches, Louisiana: The Louisiana Folklife
Center (Box 3663, NSU, Natchitoches, LA 71497).
- Gardner,
Joel, ed. 1983. A Better Life: Italian-Americans in South
Louisiana. New
- Orleans:
American-Italian Federation of the Southeast.
- [Gardner,
Joel, ed.] 1989. Folklife in the Florida Parishes. Baton
Rouge:
- Louisiana
Folklife
Program.
- Gaudet,
Marcia. 1984. Tales from the Levee. Lafayette: University
of
- Louisiana
at Lafayette.
- Gregory,
H. F. ed. 1981. Doing It Right and Passing It On: North Louisiana
Crafts.
- Alexandria,
La.: Alexandria Museum. (PO Box 1028, Alexandria, LA 71309-1028.
$2.00 + [.16 tax Louisiana residents only] + .52 postage and
handling).
- Gregory,
H. F. and Don Hatley, eds. 1992. Splittin' On The Grain: Folk Art in
Clifton,
Louisiana. Natchitoches,
LA: Louisiana Folklife Center.
- Gutierrez,
C. Page. 1992. Cajun Foodways. Jackson, MS: University
Press of
- Mississippi.
- Kniffen,
Fred B., H. F. Gregory, and G. A. Stokes. 1987. The Historic
Indian
- Tribes
of Louisiana.
Baton Rouge: LSU Press.
- Langley,
Linda, Susan Lejeune, and Claude Oubre, eds. 1995. Les Raconteurs:
- Treasure
Lore and More.
Eunice, LA: Louisiana State University - Eunice. Folklife Series,
Volume 1.
- Langley,
Linda, Susan Lejeune, and Claude Oubre, eds. 1996. Les Artistes:
- Crafters
Tell Their Tales.
Eunice, LA: Louisiana State University at Eunice. Folklife Series,
Volume 2.
- Langley,
Linda, Susan Lejeune, and Claude Oubre, eds. 1997. Les Reviel
des
- Fetes:
Revitalized Celebrations and Performance Traditions. Eunice, LA: Louisiana
State University at Eunice. Folklife Series, Volume 3.
- Langley,
Linda, Susan Lejeune, and Claude Oubre, eds. 1998. Les Vieus
Temps:
- Recreation
and Family Traditions in Southwest Louisiana. Eunice, LA: Louisiana
State University at Eunice. Folklife Series, Volume 4.
- Latimer,
Beverly D. and Phoebe D. Vermillion. 1988. Crafts Talk: Visits
with Five
- Traditional
Louisiana Craftspeople. Lafayette, LA: Lafayette Natural History Museum.
- Lee, Dayna
Bowker, ed. 1992. Le Garde-Manger: Preserving Our Treasured
- Memories. Baton Rouge, LA:
Mother Daybreak Press (263 Third Street, Suite 101, Baton Rouge,
LA 70802). Interviews with Preston Cailleteau, F. O. "Potch"
Didier, and Della and Edwin Normand of Avoyelles Parish, LA.
Interviews, photography, and design by D.L. Bennett.
- Lindahl,
Carl, and Carolyn Ware. 1997. Cajun Mardi Gras Masks.
Jackson:
- University
Press of Mississippi.
- Lindahl,
Carl, Maida Owens, and Renée Harvison, eds. 1997. Swapping
Stories:
- Folktales
from Louisiana. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi.
- Louisiana Cultural Vistas. Quarterly magazine published by
the Louisiana
- Endowment for
the Humanities,
225 Baronne St, Suite 1414, New Orleans, LA 70112, 504/523-4352.
Subscription.
- Louisiana Folklife. Periodical published
by the Louisiana Folklife Society, Box
- 3663, NSU,
Natchitoches, LA 71457. Back issues of the magazine are available,
including special issues on folk cures, Houma Indian folklore,
and African Americans. An index is online.
- Louisiana Folklore Miscellany. Periodical published
by the Louisiana Folklore
- Society.
- Mocsary,
Victoria Ann. 1990. Arpadhon: The Largest Rural Hungarian
Settlement
- in the
United States. Hammond,
LA: Center for Regional Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University.
Folklife in the Florida Parishes, Volume 6.
- Olivier,
Rick and Ben Sandmel. 1999. ZYDECO!. Jackson: University
Press of
- Mississippi.
- Orso, Ethelyn.
1990. The St. Joseph Altar Traditions of South Louisiana.
- Louisiana
Life Series, No. 4. Lafayette, Louisiana: The Center for Louisiana
Studies (P.O. Box 40831, University of Louisiana at Lafayette,
Lafayette, LA 70504-0831).
- Poesch,
Jesse and Barbara SoRelle Bacot. 1997. Louisiana Buildings
1720 -
- 1940. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press.
- Red Shoes'
People: A History of the Sovereign Nation of the Coushatta Tribe
of
- Louisiana.
1992.
Elton, LA: Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana. (P.O. Box 818, Elton,
LA, 70532).
- Riquelmy,
Christina, ed. 1994. Documenting Selected Louisiana Ethnic
Groups: A
- Theme
Issue of LLA Bulletin. Vol 57, No. 1. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana
Library Association (P.O. Box 3058, Baton Rouge, LA 70801). Italians,
Lebanese, Vietnamese, and Louisiana Indians: Chitimacha, Coushatta,
Tunica-Biloxi, Caddo, Choctaw Apache, Clifton Choctaw, Jena Band
of Choctaw, and the United Houma Nation.
- Roach, Susan,
ed. 1998. On My Way: The Arts of Sarah Albritton. Ruston:
- Louisiana
Tech University. Distributed by University Press of Mississippi. 800-737-7788, $15.00.
- Roach-Lankford,
Susan, ed. 1984.Gifts from the Hills: North Central Louisiana
- Folk Traditions.
Ruston, LA: Louisiana Tech Art Gallery.
- Romero,
Ginger. 1987. Hungarian Folklife: "The Sweet Taste of
Yesterday" in the
- Florida
Parishes of Southeast Louisiana. Folklife in the Florida Parishes
Series, Vol. III. Hammond, LA: Center for Regional Studies, Southeastern
LA Univ (Box 370, University Station, Hammond, LA 70402).
- Salaam,
Kalamu ya. 1997. "He's the Prettiest": A Tribute to Big Chief Allison
- "Tootie"Montana's 50 Years of Mardi Gras Indian Suiting
. New Orleans: New
Orleans Museum of Art. Catalog for exhibit, July12-August 31,
1997. $8.95 plus $2.50 S&H, PO Box 19123, New Orleans, LA
70179.
- Savoy, Ann.
1984. Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Eunice, LA:
Bluebird
- Press.
- Smith, Michael.
1984. Spirit World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture
of Afro-
- American
New Orleans. New
Orleans: Pelican Press.
- Smith, Michael.
1990. Make a Joyful Noise: A Celebration of New Orleans Music.
- Dallas,
TX: Taylor Publishing Co.
- Sonnier,
Jr., Austin. 1990. Second Linin': Jazzmen of Southwest Louisiana,
1900-
- 1950. Louisiana Life Series,
No. 3. Lafayette, LA: The Center for Louisiana Studies. (P.O.
Box 40831, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
70504-0831).
- Southern
Folklore.
Lexington: University of Kentucky. This journal was formerly
- published three
times a
year and is available in many university libraries. It is an excellent
source for articles about Louisiana as well as the greater South.
- Spitzer,
Nicholas. 1985. Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State.
Baton Rouge:
- Louisiana
Folklife Program. (out of print, available in Louisiana libraries)
- United Houma
Nation. [n.d.] The Houma People of Louisiana: A Story of Indian
- Survival. Golden Meadow, LA:
United Houma Nation. Available from the United Houma Nation,
Rt. 1, Box 95A, Golden Meadow, LA 70357, 504/475-6640.
- Warren,
Karen. 1982. Feast of St. Joseph: Labor of Love by the Faithful.
Folklife
- in the Florida
Parishes Series, Vol. I. Hammond, LA: Center for Regional Studies,
Southeastern Louisiana University (Box 730, University Station,
Hammond, LA 70402).
- Wilson,
Charles Reagan and William Ferris, eds. 1989. Encyclopedia
of Southern
- Culture. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press. Includes concise essays on all aspects
of the south including hard-to-find subjects such as Air-conditioning,
Catfish, Collard Greens, Smokehouse, Greeks, Cultural Landscape,
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rock & roll, Spirituals, Mythic South, Celtic South, Good Ole
Boys and Girls, "Mammy", Rednecks, Sambo, Cheerleading
and Twirling, Pentecostalism, African Methodist Episcopal Churches,
Dirt Eating (Geophagy), Tenant Farmers, Attitudes Towards Crime,
Race Riots, Nightriders, Belles and Ladies, Child-raising Customs,
Women Healers, Marriage and Courtship, Afro-American Quilting,
and Anglo-American Quilting, 1656 pages, $69.95.
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