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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} One Generation at a Time Biography of a Cajun and Creole Music Festival by Barry Jean Ancelet Barry Jean Ancelet. Barry Jean Ancelet (pseudonym Jean Arceneaux ; born 1951) [1] [4] is a Cajun folklorist in Louisiana French and ethnomusicologist in Cajun music. He has written several books, and under his pseudonym Jean Arceneaux, including poetry and lyrics to songs. Contents. Early life and education Career Music festivals Teaching Other work Honors and awards Publications As Jean Arceneaux Film See also References Further reading External links. Early life and education. Born in Church Point, in Acadia Parish, Louisiana on 25 June 1951. [1] He graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now named the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) with a Bachelor of Arts in French in 1974. [2] He received a Master of Arts in folklore from Indiana University in 1977. [2] Ancelet obtained a doctorate in 1984 in Études Créoles (anthropology and linguistics) from the Université de Provence, (Aix-Marseille I) in Aix-en-Provence, France. [2] Career. Music festivals. Ancelet co-founded and acted as the Director the Tribute to Cajun Music, in 1974 and from 1976 to 1980, [4] which became the annual Festivals Acadiens. He has also served as a Director as well as the President and member of the Executive Board for the Festival de Musique Acadienne/Cajun Music Festival since 1980. [4] Teaching. He has taught at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, starting in 1977, first as the Director of the Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore (from 1977 to 1980), as a Professor of Francophone Studies and Folklore (1977 to 1980), [2] and he was a folklorist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Center for Louisiana Studies (from 1980 to 1985). [4] Ancelet has served as Chair of University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Department of Modern Languages and as the first Director of the university's Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore — regarded as the largest compilation of media resources pertaining to these two south Louisiana ethnic groups. Other work. Ancelet hosted the Rendez-vous des Cajuns, a live weekly music radio program on KRVS for more than a decade. Ancelet has served as the Chairman on the Louisiana Folklife Commission from 1984 to 1990. [4] Ancelet is a member of many organizations, including the l'Ordre des francophones d'Amérique, in Quebec, Canada; a fellow of the American Folklore Society; and a fellow of the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Honors and awards. In 2005, Ancelet was named the Willis Granger and Tom Debaillon BORSF Professor of Francophone Studies at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 2008, he won the Américo Paredes Prize by the American Folklore Society. In 2009, he was named Louisiana "Humanist of the Year" by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Publications. Ancelet, Barry (1984). Makers of Cajun Music: Musiciens Cadiens Et Creoles . Elemore Morgan (photography) (1 ed.). University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0292750791 . Ancelet, Barry Jean (1989). Capitaine, Voyage Ton Flag: The Traditional Cajun Country Mardi Gras . Louisiana Life Series, Number 1. Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana. ISBN 978-0940984462 . Ancelet, Barry Jean (1989). Cajun Music: Its Origins and Development . Louisiana Life Series, Number 2. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. ISBN 978- 0940984486 . Ancelet, Barry Jean; Edwards, Jay; Pitre, Glen (1991). Cajun Country . Folklife in the South Series. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0878054671 . Ancelet, Barry Jean (1994). Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana . University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0878057092 . Ancelet, Barry Jean; Gould, Philip (2007). One Generation at a Time: Biography of a Cajun and Creole Music Festival . Benny Graeff (contribution), David Simpson (contribution). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. ISBN 978- 1887366809 . Gould, Philip; Hebert, Sandy; Ancelet, Barry Jean (1984). Les Cadiens D'Asteur: Today's Cajuns . Galerie Press Incorporated. ISBN 978-0917541001 . As Jean Arceneaux. Arceneaux, Jean (1994). Je Suis Cadien [ I Am Cajun ] . Merrick, New York: Cross-Cultural Communications. Arceneaux, Jean (1998). Suite du loup . Collection Acadie Tropicale. Moncton, Canada: Éditions Perce-Neige. ISBN 9782896910670 . Arceneaux, Jean (2002). Je Suis Cadien [ I Am Cajun ] . Translated by St. Germain, Sheryl (French ed.). Merrick, New York: Cross-Cultural Communications. ISBN 978- 0893042165 . (published in French) Year Title Type Director(s) Role Notes 1989 I Went to the Dance (J'ai Été Au Bal) documentary Les Blank narrator, self Film about the history of music in Cajun Southwest Louisiana. 2007 It's in the Blood: Leo Abshire & the Cajun Tradition documentary Cyndi Moran, Eric Scholl self [5] [6] 2011 Mardi Gras: Feast Before Fast documentary Shereen Jerrett self. See also. Related Research Articles. The Cajuns , also known as Acadians , are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana. They also live in the Canadian maritimes provinces consisting in part of the descendants of the original Acadian exiles—French-speakers from Acadia ( L'Acadie ) in what are now the Maritimes of Eastern Canada. In Louisiana, Acadian and Cajun are often used as broad cultural terms without reference to actual descent from the deported Acadians. Historically, Louisianians of Acadian descent were also considered to be Louisiana Creoles, although Cajun and Creole are often portrayed as separate identities today. Most Cajuns are of French descent. The Cajuns make up a significant portion of south Louisiana's population and have had an enormous impact on the state's culture. Zydeco is a music genre that evolved in southwest Louisiana by French Creole speakers which blends blues, rhythm and blues, and music indigenous to the Louisiana Creoles and the Native American people of Louisiana. Although it is distinct in origin from the Cajun music of Louisiana, the two forms influenced each other, forming a complex of genres native to Louisiana. Acadiana is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population. Many are of Acadian descent and now identify as Cajuns or Louisiana Creoles. Of the 64 parishes that make up the U.S. state of Louisiana, 22 named parishes and other parishes of similar cultural environment make up this intrastate region. BeauSoleil is a Cajun band from Louisiana, United States. Louisiana Creoles are persons descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana before it became a part of the U.S. during the period of both French and Spanish rule. As an ethnic group, their ancestry is mainly of African American, French American, Spanish American and/or Native American origin. Louisiana Creoles share cultural ties such as the traditional use of the French, Spanish, and Louisiana Creole languages and predominant practice of Catholicism. Elemore Morgan Jr. was an American painter, photographer, and educator. He was recognized in the Southern United States as a leading contemporary landscape artist. He was a professor of art at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, from 1965 until 1998. His paintings of rice farms in Vermilion Parish have been widely exhibited, from Paris to Los Angeles. Carl Anthony Brasseaux is an American historian and educator. He specialized in French Colonial North America, particularly of Louisiana and the Cajun people. He helped to pioneer the field of Cajun history, and his published works on this topic represent the first serious, in-depth examination of the history of the ethnic group. Glenn Russell Conrad was an American historian, professor, and author. He is known for his research of south Louisiana culture, as well as an expert on archival studies, nineteenth-century European history, and the history of colonial Louisiana. He taught at Southern Colorado State and the University of Southwestern Louisiana from 1958 until 1991, and serving as the director of the Center of Louisiana Studies at University of Southern Louisiana from 1973 until 1993. Nathan Abshire was an American Cajun accordion player. His time in the U.S. Army inspired Abshire to write the crooner song "Service Blues", which the newspaper Daily World reported as "one of his most memorable tearjerkers". After the war, he settled in Basile, Louisiana, where he played regularly at the Avalon Club. He released his best-known record, "Pine Grove Blues", in 1949. Abshire's music became more well-known outside of Louisiana at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival. Abshire was never able to write so he was unable to sign autographs, resulting in him having to politely decline the requests. Despite thoughts of Abshire being "arrogant or stuck-up" for not signing autographs, he was unable to read and write. However, Abshire was taught how to write his own signature by Barry Jean Ancelet. Despite receiving more income from music than the majority of Cajun musicians, Abshire was not able to entirely depend on that income to live on. Abshire had multiple jobs during his life and his final job was working as the custodian of the town's dump. Abshire's legacy continued after his death in the form of a museum, a book, and a magazine special issue. Dennis (Denus) McGee was one of the earliest recorded Cajun musicians. The Courir de Mardi Gras is a traditional Mardi Gras event held in many Cajun and Creole communities of French Louisiana on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. Courir de Mardi Gras is Louisiana French for "Fat Tuesday Run". This rural Mardi Gras celebration is based on early begging rituals, similar to those still celebrated by mummers, wassailers, and celebrants of Halloween. As Mardi Gras is the celebration of the final day before Lent, celebrants drink and eat heavily, dressing in specialized costumes, ostensibly to protect their identities. In Acadiana, popular practices include wearing masks and costumes, overturning social conventions, dancing, drinking alcohol, begging, trail riding, feasting, and whipping.

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