Program

Public Programs: Younger Scholars, 2/76 - 2/85

Period of Performance

4/1/1973 - 10/31/1973

Funding Totals

$5,513.00 (approved)
$5,513.00 (awarded)


Cajun Music Research Project

FAIN: GY-10137-73

Ronald E. Stanford
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To examine through interviews and photographs as well as close listening, the varieties of Cajun music in southwest Louisiana. To relate the already quite well documented offshoot, modern Cajun music. To determine the quality of chance and modernization of this regional music from the musician's point of view.