Zydeco/Cajun Music & Dance

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FIND MORE:  Please use this handout to discover more about Zydeco/Cajun music and dance.  Below is a  list of information books, videos, DVDs and websites.  Books, videos and DVDs are located in the LeDoux Library and most are available for check out.

Books, videos and DVDs Pertaining to Zydeco and Cajun Music

American Patchwork: The Land where the Blues Began. Alan Lomax. Columbia University and Hunter College. 1990. Available at the LeDoux Library (LA Room). LSUE.  VT 257.

Become a Good Dancer. Blanche and Emilio Librero. Libero’s Instructional Dance Videos. Available at the LeDoux Library (LA Room). LSUE.  VT 440.

Burn the Floor: A Revolutionary Dance Extravaganza. David Mallet.Universal Studios. 1999. Available at the LeDoux Library (LA Room). LSUE.  VT 2047.

Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Ann Allen Savoy. Bluebird Press. 1984. Available at the LeDoux Library LSUE.

ML 3477 C34 1984.

Cajun Music and Zydeco. Philip Gould. Louisiana State University Press. 1992. Available at the LeDoux Library. LSUE.

ML 87 G78 1992.

Catch Dance Fever: Country/Western. Alan Meyers. 1985. Available at the LeDoux Library (LA Room). LSUE. VT 239.

Chantez Encore: South Louisiana French Folk Songs. Jeanne and Robert C. Gilmore. Acadiana Music.  1977. Available at the LeDoux Library. LSUE.   M 1980 F7 G5.

Christy Lane’s Line Dancing. Brentwood Home Video. 1992. Available at the LeDoux Library  (LA Room). LSUE.  VT 557.

Contemporary Cajun, Creole, Zydeco Musicians. http://www.lsue.edu/acadgate/music/musicmain.htm

Creoles of Color of the Gulf South. James H. Dormon. The University of Tennessee Press. 1996. Available at the LeDoux Library. LSUE.  F 380 C87 C74 1996.

Creole Music Man: Bois Sec Ardoin. Ching Veillon and Bois Sec Ardoin. 2004. Available at the LeDoux Library (LA Room). LSUE.  VT 2898.

Dedans le sud de la Louisiane. Available at the LeDoux Library (LA Room). LSUE.  VT 1010.

Forever my Love: Music from the Bayou. Pat Mire. Louisiana Public Broadcasting. 2001. Available at the LeDoux Library (LA Room).  LSUE.  VT 2839.

From La La to Zydeco: Creole and zydeco music from Louisiana. Robert Willey and Karl Fontenot. 2005. Available at the LeDoux Library (LA Room).  LSUE.  DVD 111.

Introduction to Cajun Dancing. Rand and Cynthia Speyrer. 1993. Available at the LeDoux Library  (LA Room). LSUE. VT 545.

The Makers of Cajun Music. Barry Jean Ancelet. University of Texas Press. 1984. Available at the LeDoux Library. LSUE.

ML 3477 A5 1984

Mardi Gras Schedule for Rural Acadiana. http://www.lsue.edu/acadgate/schedule.htm

Memories: A Pictorial History of South Louisiana Music. Johnnie Allan. JADFEL Publishing. 1995.  Available at the LeDoux Library. LSUE.  ML 87 A5 1995.

South to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous. John Broven. Pelican Publishing Company. 1983.  Available at the LeDoux Library. LSUE.  ML 3477 B76 1983

Zydeco!  Ben Sandmel. University Press of Mississippi. 1999. Available at the LeDoux Library. LSUE.   ML 3560 C25 S26 1999.