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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.
Also see the publications list on the Louisiana Folklore Society website.
- 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).
- 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.
- de Caro, F. A. 1990.
Folklife in Louisiana Photography: Images of Tradition.
Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press.
- 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. 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. Historic Indian Tribes
- of Louisiana.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana
- 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.
- 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 Endowment for the Humanities. KnowLa: Encyclopedia of Louisiana.
- 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 Southeast Louisiana 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.
- 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 Southeast Louisiana 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).
DT>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 Southeast Louisiana Studies,
Southeastern Louisiana University (Box 730, University Station, Hammond,
LA 70402).
- Wilson, Charles Reagan, general editor.The New Encyclopedia of Southern
- Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
First published in 1989, the new encyclopedia is thoroughly revised and updated in 24 volumes. 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, Cemeteries, Funerals, Grave
Markers, Ethnic Geography, Gardens and Gardening, Debutantes, Music
Industry, African Influences, English Language, New Orleans English,
Drawl, Southern Film, 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.
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