Accordion dreams : a journey into Cajun and Creole music / Blair Kilpatrick.
"By age thirty-nine, Blair Kilpatrick had settled into life as a practicing psychologist, wife, and mother. Then a chance encounter in New Orleans turned her world upside down. She returned home to Chicago with unlikely new passions for Cajun music and its defining instrument, the accordion. Ca...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Beginnings. Swamp tour
- Accordion dreams
- Charivari
- Allons à Lafayette
- Les femmes d'enfer
- Awakening at Augusta
- After Augusta
- Return to Acadiana
- Finding my voice
- Going deeper
- Our town, good night
- Danse de Poullard. First jam at Danny's
- Musical chairs
- Sauce Piquante
- In the blood
- Return to Augusta
- Singing higher
- Orphan's waltz
- Mon coeur fait plus mal
- The last session
- Another Wednesday night
- Coda : higher ground.