Stivale / Fish / Jameson Disenchanting Les Bons Temps

Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8482-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Presents the complex and conflicting views of Cajun cultural heritage, identities, and their manifestation in musical and dance expression.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stivale, Charles J.

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: “The Good Times Are Killing Me” 1

1. Becoming-Cajun 9

2. (Geo)graphies of (Dé)paysement: Dislocation and Unsettling in the Cajun Music Repertoire 40

3. “J’ai Été au Bal”: Cajun Sights and Sounds 73

4. Feeling the Event: Spaces of Affects and the Cajun Dance Arena 110

5. Disenchanting Les Bons Temps
132

6. Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler, or, Death and Life in the Cajun Dance Arena 158

Notes 169

Works Cited 193

Index 211

Über Autor(innen)

Charles J. Stivale is Professor of French at Wayne State University. He is the author of several books including The Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari: Intersections and Animations.