The Cajuns: Americanization of a People by Shane K. Bernard | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: The Cajuns: Americanization of a People Author: Shane K. Bernard Narrator: Chaz Allen Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins Language: English Release date: 09-15-17 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Genres: History, American Summary: The past 60 years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana. In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, so too did the isolated Cajuns. Cajun soldiers fought alongside troops from Brooklyn and Berkeley and absorbed aspects of new cultures. In the 1950s as rock 'n' roll and television crackled across Louisiana airwaves, Cajun music makers responded with their own distinct versions. In the 1960s, empowerment and liberation movements turned the South upside down. During the 1980s, as things Cajun became an absorbing national fad, "Cajun" became a kind of brand identity used for selling everything from swamp tours to boxed rice dinners. By linking seemingly local events in the Cajuns' once isolated south Louisiana homeland to national and even global events, Shane K. Bernard demonstrates that by the middle of the twentieth century the Cajuns for the first time in their ethnic story were engulfed in the currents of mainstream American life and yet continued to make outstandingly distinct contributions. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. Contact: [email protected]