Author Archives: Nick Pittman

No Damsels in Distress

Cleoma Breaux Falcon’s daughter Lulu once told the story of her mother kicking a man in the eye while she performed onstage because she was fed up with his pestering. She also remembered Cleoma always cooking her breakfast, even after playing the night before, and always meeting her at school with a hot, home-cooked lunch. [...]

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A Cajun Encyclopedia

Ryan Brasseaux and Kevin Fontenot were both deep into research on Cajun music when they compared source material over Guinness and Irish whiskey at an after party for the 2004 Louisiana Historical Association meeting. Brasseaux had compiled a 40-page, single-spaced bibliography and found Fontenot, a doctoral candidate and instructor at Tulane, was influenced by many [...]

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