The Spanish Tradition In Louisiana
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The Spanish Tradition In Louisiana
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Author : Samuel G. Armistead
language : en
Publisher: Linguatext, Limited - (Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs)
Release Date : 1992
The Spanish Tradition In Louisiana written by Samuel G. Armistead and has been published by Linguatext, Limited - (Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Canary Islanders categories.
Conexiones
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Author : Crossroads Symposium Project
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2005
Conexiones written by Crossroads Symposium Project and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Louisiana categories.
As stated in the Introduction: Conexiones, presenting some of the traces from Spain to the Crossroads of Louisiana and dedicated to El Corazón de España, introduces the general reader to the acculturation and interconnections between Spanish and American culture with Louisiana as a prism revealing the rich colors of Spain and its effects on America. It was inspired by the exhibit of Spanish art held at the Alexandria Museum of Art in Alexandria, Louisiana during the fall of 2003 a unique exhibition of Spain's religious art, antiquities and icons. Conexiones carries a preface by Javier Rupérez, the Ambassador of Spain to the United States. We wondered if we couldn't provide a book which would give the reader a taste of the variety of ways in which Spain, Spanish culture, and Hispanic culture are intertwined in the history, people and imagination of Louisiana. Thus the Crossroads Symposium Project was created, with the assistance of the Downtown Press, an entity devoted to furthering civic and cultural activities both serious and entertaining. We were even bolder in thinking that purely local' authors might know enough to provide the reader with a rewarding look at things Spanish. That book you now have before you, and you will be judge of whether this miscellany achieves some success. But before sketching the contents inside the covers, we would like to direct you to the equally bold colors on the outside of our book, featuring the work of the noted Barcelona artist, Jose Maria Garcia-Llort. Señor Garcia-Llort and his wife Martha Crockett lived in Central Louisiana in the 1950s. Within the book you will find Ms. Crockett's engaging story of those years. Barcelona art historian Àlex Mitrani provides a discussion of Señor Garcia-Llort's art and gives an overview of modern Spanish art as well. The contributors to Conexiones include specialists in fields ranging from history to art, from literature to the guitar. Your guided tour starts appropriately enough with Louisiana and Spain. Here you will find an account by Jerry Sanson of the history of Spanish Colonial Louisiana. Bernard Gallagher discusses the reaction to Hispanic culture in the writing of Arna Bontemps and his close friend from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes. Arna Bontemps was born in Alexandria, Louisiana and his birth home now houses an important institution, the Arna Bontemps African American Museum. Richard Gwartney reflects on Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, and on the perils and adventures in recreating the play. Philip Tapley tells us about Louisiana's heroic St. Denis, who founded the city of Natchitoches in l7l4. And David Ker Texada gives an account of his Central Louisiana family which traces its history directly back to the Spanish colonial period. Conexiones next turn to two exceptional Stories. The first is the memoir by Martha Crockett de Garcia-Llort, a vibrant account of living with her husband as artists and as residents of Central Louisiana. The rich gumbo of multiple cultures, Spanish and Louisiana style, is stirred and enjoyed. The cover of Conexiones displays the work of Garcia-Llort, whose vivid colors depict both Spain and Louisiana. Jock Scott then tells the astonishing and heroic story of his aunt, Natalie Vivian Scott, a participant in both the First and the Second World Wars, a prime mover in the French Quarter literary renaissance of the 1920s, and a member of the Mexican-American colony of creative friends in Taxco, Mexico, where she made her "permanent home within a vastly different culture." At the heart of Conexiones we find personal stories. Crossroads begins as Dessie Williams tells the story of her uncle who returned from Spain to a still segregated Louisiana, a fascinating account which concludes with her interview with Mayo Brew. Elizabeth Levy recalls living between the ages of two and five in Spain Spanish w
The Dance Halls Of Spanish Louisiana
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Author : Sara Harris
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Release Date : 2017-10-16
The Dance Halls Of Spanish Louisiana written by Sara Harris and has been published by Pelican Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-16 with History categories.
Dancing and dance halls were integral to the Spanish-Louisiana cultural identity of the twentieth century. Employing historical documents and dozens of interviews, this book follows the phenomenon from 1778 to today.
Louisiana S French Creole Culinary Linguistic Traditions
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Author : Ina Fandrich
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2013-02-14
Louisiana S French Creole Culinary Linguistic Traditions written by Ina Fandrich and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-14 with History categories.
For the last four decades, Louisiana has promoted its 500 year old French Colonial Creole culture as "Cajun" implying that this culture had its origin in Acadian Canada. Nothing could be farthest from the truth! During the racially turbulent 1960's Jim Crow era when black Americans were literally struggling for their civil and human rights, the historic nomenclature for Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic CREOLE culture would change to a weird stereotyping of only WHITE French-speakers as "Cajun" and only BLACK French-speakers as "Creole" -regardless of the facts of history, genealogy, geography and genalogical reality. Today, the meaning of "Cajun" has once again changed into something which seeks to encompass a so-called "regional identity" which again, ignores its own past and historical meaning. What's really going on? In "Louisiana's French Creole Culinary & Linguistic Traditions: Facts vs Fiction Before and Since Cajunization" authors John LaFleur II and Brian Costello, both life-long Louisiana French Colonial Creole speakers and cultural experts, along with Dr. Ina Fandrich of New Orleans, have decided to provide meaningful answers to questions long plaguing and confusing both the international and their local public. Their research, personal knowledge and answers are provided in this historic first which traces the pre-Acadian roots of Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic or Creole people, their foodways and their several languages still spoken in Louisiana today. The answers are often humorous, but poignantly factual and well-documented. This beautiful hardcover book is furnished in vintage black and white and contemporary full-color photography which grounds facts, places and people to a forgotten reality and culture which has been re-labeled and mass-marketed as "Cajun" for reasons both shameful and comical to educated and right-minded people alike.
Recollecting Isleno Decimas
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Author : William D. Buckingham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Recollecting Isleno Decimas written by William D. Buckingham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Canary Islanders categories.
This dissertation takes a fine-grained approach to the study of a unique local genre of Spanish-language ballad from southeast Louisiana, the Isleno decima. For over two hundred years, the distal marshlands of lower St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, have sustained a handful of small communities of farmers, trappers, and fishers, known as the Islenos. Islenos trace their ancestors back to colonists from the Canary Islands who settled here during the Spanish colonial period (1763-1802). Their ballads, decimas, provided the soundtrack for a unique way of life in this marsh frontier. These songs composed a unique local tradition, distinct from the widely distributed eponymous genre of Spanish verse. The central concern of this study lies in the dynamic, mutable, and polysemous musical meanings embodied by the genre over time. It begins with the early history of the genre, from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s, situating the Isleno decima within a broad and diverse circum-Gulf of Mexico cultural milieu, and then narrates a history of the genre as it was collected, celebrated, and ultimately transformed into the icon of Isleno identity in the context of a local ethnic revival. The dissertation then turns to the ethnographic present, a present in which Isleno decimas are no longer sung or transmitted as an active musical tradition, asking how the genre might continue to mean in the absence of a living tradition. Engaging with a diverse range of interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological issues, this dissertation brings a new perspective to this little-known local genre, and brings insights gained from this local case to bear on issues of central concern in ethnomusicology and related fields, including historical and ethnographic methodologies, musical meaning, silence, absence, music sustainability, human ecology, and space.
Varieties Of Spanish In The United States
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Author : John M. Lipski
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2008-09-24
Varieties Of Spanish In The United States written by John M. Lipski and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-24 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Thirty-three million people in the United States speak some variety of Spanish, making it the second most used language in the country. Some of these people are recent immigrants from many different countries who have brought with them the linguistic traits of their homelands, while others come from families who have lived in this country for hundreds of years. John M. Lipski traces the importance of the Spanish language in the United States and presents an overview of the major varieties of Spanish that are spoken there. Varieties of Spanish in the United States provides—in a single volume—useful descriptions of the distinguishing characteristics of the major varieties, from Cuban and Puerto Rican, through Mexican and various Central American strains, to the traditional varieties dating back to the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries found in New Mexico and Louisiana. Each profile includes a concise sketch of the historical background of each Spanish-speaking group; current demographic information; its sociolinguistic configurations; and information about the phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicon, and each group's interactions with English and other varieties of Spanish. Lipski also outlines the scholarship that documents the variation and richness of these varieties, and he probes the phenomenon popularly known as "Spanglish." The distillation of an entire academic career spent investigating and promoting the Spanish language in the United States, this valuable reference for teachers, scholars, students, and interested bystanders serves as a testimony to the vitality and legitimacy of the Spanish language in the United States. It is recommended for courses on Spanish in the United States, Spanish dialectology and sociolinguistics, and teaching Spanish to heritage speakers.
Louisiana S Creole French People Our Language Food Culture
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Author : John LaFleur II
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Louisiana S Creole French People Our Language Food Culture written by John LaFleur II and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this provocative and poignant book, 500 Years Of Culture: Louisiana's Creole French & Metis People, Food, Language and Culture, I seek to provide my intelligent lay readers appropriate and useful scholarly resources which illustrate that a pre-Acadian culture of Canadian and North American Métis roots, to which was added European, African and later Spanish elements combined in both "Upper" and "Lower Louisiana" resulting in a multi-ethnic, but distinctly unique Louisiana Creole culture. Though reminiscent of other kindred Creole cultures and people of the world of the former French Empire, she remains unique. This unique historic, but forgotten culture existed prior to the arrival of the Acadians, and its cultural and linguistic traditions resulted in Louisiana's historic "Creole" culture. This multi-ethnic culture's food ways, language and social traditions were hijacked and promoted as if it was something totally new in the 1970s and 80s, and then relabeled "Cajun" with no regard for the pre-existant and dominant history and sensibilities of the non-white ethnicities who were the true originators and creators of Louisiana's long indigenous and pre-Acadian culture! It is my hope to sufficiently demonstrate through this historical narrative, which is both passionate and humorous, how greed, ignorance and commerce joined hands in relabeling Louisiana's historic multi-ethnic Creole French and metis culture as if Acadian-Canada was the source of this remarkable and unusual culture which remains foreign to anything in Acadie! Informative and well-researched, I submit to you the reading and caring public, this revision which is also a much more readable, better edited and supplemented text. In this book, for example, a badly needed chapter on the cultural relationship between Louisiana Creole and Haitian Creole culture is provided and will prove to be a great source of help in avoiding needless confusion of these two separate, but kindred cultures. Though small, this little book will no doubt, prove to be a powerhouse of jaw-dropping facts, as it is an uproariously humorous expose' of one of the most popular cultural forces in America and across the planet today! And, notwithstanding our best efforts, sometimes typographical errors and misses occur. For whatever imperfections of text remain, I take full responsibility as I also apologize to you dear reader.
Libraries History Diplomacy And The Performing Arts
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Author : Carleton Sprague Smith
language : en
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Release Date :
Libraries History Diplomacy And The Performing Arts written by Carleton Sprague Smith and has been published by Pendragon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Speaking In Tongues Louisiana S Creole French Cajun Language Tell Their Own Story
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Author : John laFleur II
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Speaking In Tongues Louisiana S Creole French Cajun Language Tell Their Own Story written by John laFleur II and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Adapted from a larger work,"Speaking In Tongues, Louisiana's Colonial French, Creole & Cajun Languages Tell Their Story" reveals Louisiana's remarkable Old World French & metis language traditions which continue to enchant America and scholars in all the world! But, along with the fame Cajunization has brought the State, historical distortion and misinformation fostered by mass-marketing and media conditioning myopia have suppressed and misrepresented Louisiana's historic French languages, cultural history and people as if uniquely Acadian in origin. But, Louisiana's diverse multi-ethnic French languages, cultural traditions and people existed long before the arrival of the Acadians, who themselves were to become its beneficiaries! Author-scholars John laFleur & Brian Costello, native-speakers respectively of Louisiana's Colonial Creole French & her sister tongue of Louisiana Afro-Creole with Dr. Ina Fandrich, provide a non-commercially scripted, first-time study of both the history and ethnological origins of Louisiana's diverse French-speaking peoples of the French Triangle and present the unvarnished results of their investigation, experience along with the evidence of modern and historical scholarship as seen through the franco and creolophonic traditions of Louisiana. A must read for all Louisiana cultural and linguistic afficionados!
Hispanic Confederates
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Author : John O'Donnell-Rosales
language : en
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Release Date : 2006
Hispanic Confederates written by John O'Donnell-Rosales and has been published by Genealogical Publishing Com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Hispanic American soldiers categories.
Although it is not generally acknowledged, a number of soldiers of Hispanic ancestry fought on behalf of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. As John O'Donnell-Rosales explains in the Introduction to the new Third Edition of his ground-breaking list of Hispanic Confederate soldiers, many of these individuals--including businessmen and sailors living in cities like New Orleans, St. Louis, Natchez, Biloxi, and Mobile--would have to choose between their cultural aversion to American slavery and the natural desire to protect their way of life in the South. After consulting a number of primary and secondary sources, including numerous rosters of Confederate soldiers, the author has compiled the only comprehensive roster of Hispanic Confederate soldiers in print. The number of soldiers listed in this volume has grown to 6,175 men, a number nearly twice as large as identified in the first edition.