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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Ancelet, Barry Jean
Title:
Cajun music: its origin and development
Published By: Original publisher
Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies. 1989. 58 p.,
[8] p. of plates ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Barry Jean Ancelet
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1995. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Cajuns (NO12)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Music (533);
Musical instruments (534);
Literary texts (539);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents a concise survey of the history and
development of Cajun music from the early settlements in Nova Scotia in the seventeenth
century to the late twentieth century in Louisiana. Ancelet concentrates on the
evolutionary changes that took place in Cajun music after Acadian resettlement in Louisiana
in the eighteenth century, first as the result of contact with Creole, Anglo-American, and
Spanish musical forms, and later (in the twentieth century), under the influence of the
blues, swing, and country sounds. Ancelet also discusses the effects on Cajun music of the
introduction of the accordion in the eighteenth century, and other instruments (e.g., the
electric guitar), in the 1940s and l950s.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
15
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
no12-015
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and discography
(p. 52-58)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Folklorist-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle, 1993
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
variable
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Louisiana, United States
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Cajuns
