Joshua Clegg Caffery: 2 books
In the Creole Twilight
Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Many recurring motifs found in south Louisiana’s culture spring from the state’s rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of European and African heritage, celebrated customs like the Courir de Mardi Gras and fabled creatures like the Loup-Garou are outgrowths of the region’s distinctive oral traditions....
Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana
The 1934 Lomax Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Alan Lomax's prolific sixty-four-year career as a folklorist and musicologist began with a trip across the South and into the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country during the height of the Great Depression. In 1934, his father John, then curator of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song,...