It went down well with the affluent and influential east coast audience, and as a result the authorities in Louisiana changed their attitude. French, once a punishable offence in New Orleans schools, was put back on the curriculum. The old men with the accordions and fiddles were feted at ceremonies of public recognition in baseball stadia. With great pomp and ceremony, the Folk became Fake . The Mardi Gras sections are also interesting.
People dress up in masks, act badly, drink wildly, kill chickens, and receive symbolic punishment.
It's an IdentiLego orgy . We've got to remember, though, that folk art in traditional societies and folk as a piece of the pomo CiviLego are different things. Traditions you cannot escape are very different from traditions you're free to choose randomly from, ranged on a supermarket shelf. The first encourages capitulation, the second dilettantism . We can listen to a folk song about a wedding, but, if we're modern people, we can never decide to have traditional arranged marriages ourselves.