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A Cajun Encyclopedia

March 1, 2007 by: Nick Pittman

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 of the same writings. Realizing that much of this key literature on Cajun music was not readily a...

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