French Louisiana Music and Its Patrons
Peknik, Patricia![French Louisiana Music and Its Patrons](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/324/32477949/CHSBZCOP0332477949.jpg)
French Louisiana music emerged from the bayous and prairies of Southwest Louisiana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pioneered by impoverished Acadian and Afro-Caribbean settlers, the sound is marked by a high-pitched fiddle playing loud and fast above the bellow of a diatonic accordion. With lyrics about disaster and heartache sung cheerfully in a French dialect, the effect is dissonant and haunting. French Louisiana music...