River music
Subtitle: an Atchafalaya story
By: Ann McCutchan
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Gulf Coast books -- no. 20; Gulf Coast books -- no. 20.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781603442893; 9781603443227
Subjects: Composers; Soundscapes (Music); Environmental conditions; Recording and reproducing; Nature sounds; History and criticism; Biography
Description: "Louisiana?s Atchafalaya River Basin, the heart and soul of Acadiana, or Cajun country, is the focus of this compelling narrative by Ann McCutchan. A masterful weaving of cultural and environmental history, River Music also tells the life story of Louisiana musician, naturalist, and sound documentarian Earl Robicheaux. With Robicheaux as her guide, McCutchan embarks on a musical, visual, literary, and historical tour of the Atchafalaya, where bayous, swamps, marshes, and river delta country have long sustained nature and culture, even as industry has changed both the landscape and the people. Along the way, she and Robicheaux pay homage to distinctive voices of the region?s singular soundscape, including Acadian and Native American elders, birds, frogs, alligators, wind, water, and weather, which Robicheaux chronicles in archival recordings and musical compositions for museum exhibits, radio programs, and repositories such as the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. A CD of Robicheaux's soundscapes is included with the book"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Calls; title: Roots; title: Wildlife; title: Basin education; title: Outsider artist; title: Austin; title: Return to the basin; title: Field notes; title: Cancer and Katrina; title: State of the basin; title: Turning tides; title: Epilogue.