River music : an Atchafalaya story / Ann McCutchan
- Author:
- McCutchan, Ann
- Published:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 201 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Series:
- Contents:
- Calls -- Roots -- Wildlife -- Basin education -- Outsider artist -- Austin -- Return to the basin -- Field notes -- Cancer and Katrina -- State of the basin -- Turning tides -- Epilogue.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Subject(s):
- Robicheaux, Earl, 1954-
- Composers—Louisiana—Atchafalaya River Region—Biography
- Nature sounds—Recording and reproducing—Louisiana—Atchafalaya River Region
- Soundscapes (Music)—Louisiana—Atchafalaya River Region—History and criticism
- Atchafalaya River Region (La.)—Biography
- Atchafalaya River Region (La.)—Environmental conditions
- ISBN:
- 9781603442893 (cloth : alk. paper)
1603442898 (cloth : alk. paper) - Related Titles:
- Atchafalaya soundscapes
- Note:
- Accompanied by sound disc: Atchafalaya soundscapes by Earl Robicheaux
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes index.
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