CAJUN & ZYDECO LITERATURE

Here we offer a selection of books about Cajun- and Zydecoculture.

 

You can order these books at amazone2

 

Music - Food - Culture - Dance - Miscellaneous - (** = recommended)

 

Music

 

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**  Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens Cadiens Et Creoles

**  Ann Allen Savoy: Cajun Music: A reflection of the people

**  South to Louisiana by John Broven. Excellent book on Cajun Music.

**  Let the Good Times Roll! A Guide to Cajun & Zydeco Music by Pat Nyhan, Brian Rollins, David Babb, Micheal Doucet

Cajun Music and Zydeco
Cajun Music and Zydeco With Companion (Special Edition) 
**  Swamp Pop : Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues (American Made Music Series)
Yé yaille, chère: traditional cajun dance music by Raymond E Francois
Cajun Music and Zydeco by Philip Gould and Barry Jean Ancelet (with CD)
Michael Tisserand: The Kingdom of zydeco
Johnnie Allan: memories, a pictorial history of south louisiana music 1910 - 1990
Pierre V. Daigle: Tears, love and laughter, The story of the cajuns and their music
** The Top 50 Festivals of Cajun Country 
Robert Sacré: Musiques cajun, créole et zydeco 
Accordions Fiddles Two Step and Swing by Ryan A. Brasseaux and Kevin S. Fontenot: 535 pages, different articles about all the aspects of cajun for the real diehards

 

Food

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The 100 Greatest New Orleans Creole Recipes
Anna Christiana's 'Un-A-Fancii' New Orleans Cookbook (Legacy Edition)
The Asphodel Plantation Cookbook
Best of Bayou Cuisine
Best of Cajun Creole Recipes
The Best of New Orleans
Cajun Cooking for Beginners
Cajun Cuisine : Authentic Cajun Recipes from Louisiana's Bayou Country
Cajun Men Cook : Recipes, Stories & Food  Experiences from Louisiana Cajun Country
Cajun Quick
The Cookin' Cajun Cooking School Cookbook
Down the Bayou Cookbook : A Collection of Favorite Cajun Recipes
Every Day's a Party : Louisiana Recipes for Celebrating With Family and Friends
Favre Family Cookbook : Three Generations of Cajun and Creole Cooking from the Gulf Coast
Frank Davis Cooks Cajun, Creole, and Crescent City 
Good Time Eatin' in Cajun Country : Cajun Vegetarian Cooking
Hot Peppers : The Story of Cajuns and Capsicum (Chapel Hill Book)
Justin Wilson Looking Back : A Cajun Cookbook
The Little Gumbo Book
Louis Evans' Creole Cookbook
Making It Easy Cajun Cooking : Recipes and Remembrances from Acadiana
Stir the Pot - The History of Cajun Cuisine by Marcelle Bienvenu, Carl A. Brasseaux, Ryan A. Brasseaux: Nice stories about cajun cooking

 

Culture

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** Philip Gould: Les Cadiens d'Asteur-Today's cajuns

** Glenn R. Conrad: The Cajuns,Essays on their history and Culture

Buried Treasures of the South : Legends of Lost, Buried, and Forgotten Treasures-From Tidewater Virginia and Coastal Carolina to Cajun Louisiana

Cajun Alphabet

Cajun and Creole Folktales : The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana

Cajun Country (Folklife in the South Series)

A Cajun Dream

Cajun Home

Cajun Stories My Grandpa Tole Me

Down in Cajun Country

Growing Up in Crawfish Country : A Cajun Childhood (Growing Up in America)

Jolie Blonde and the Three Heberts : A Cajun Twist to an Old Tale

Lettres Acadiennes : A Cajun ABC

Acadian to Cajun : Transformation of a People, 1803-1877

Louisiana Faces von Philip Gould ,Jason Berry

Louisiana: A bicentennial history by Joe Gray Taylor

Eating,drinking and visiting in the south: an informal history by Joe
Gray Taylor

Texas Zydeco by Roger Wood and James Fraher:
Fantastic book with wonderfull black and white photography

Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell: sad story about how every hour almost a footballfield of ground disappears in the sea. one of the greatest environemental disasters in the US.

 

Dance

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Cajun Dancing

 

Miscellaneous

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Cajun Christmas Cards

Cajun Country Guide

Cajun Fairy Tales

Cajun Folktales

Cajun Folktales

Cajun Folktales

Cajun Folktales (American Storytelling (Cloth)

Cajun Ghost Stories

Cajun Humor

Cajun Night Before Christmas

Cajun Sketches : From the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana 

Cajun Through and Through

Feliciana Feydra Leroux : A Cajun Tall Tale