Title: Unmasking the Creole Cowboy: Cosmopolitan Cultures in the Gulf South
Abstract: This essay explores the complicated and often contradictory story of métissage or French cultural hybridity in south Louisiana. It seeks to draw attention to the evolving relationship between creolization and the French exception on the Gulf Coast since the eighteenth century. French creole cultures in the American South today continue to reveal atypical and noteworthy experiences. The article discusses several different expressions of French créolité, and takes as a particularly pertinent example, the hybrid musical traditions of Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole communities.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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