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Cajun Music & Culture
This is one of my Cajun Accordions, hand-made by Clarence "Junior" Martin of Lafayette, Louisiana.
Just a few years ago, during the course of a family history research project, I developed an interest in the French music of North America.
Musical metaphors seemed to have evolved intact from seventeenth century France to eighteenth century Canada, and were essential to my appreciation of the cultures and lifestyles of my ancestors. Then I discovered that these s ...
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