PDF⋙ Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky-tonks, and Dance Halls by Alex V. Cook
Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky-tonks, and Dance Halls by Alex V. Cook Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky-tonks, and Dance Halls by Alex V. Cook PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad From backwoods bars and small-town dives to swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns, Louisiana Saturday Night offers an anecdotal history and experiential guidebook to some of the Gumbo State's most unique blues, Cajun, and zydeco clubs. Music critic Alex V. Cook uncovers south Louisiana's wellspring of musical tradition, showing us that indigenous music exists not as an artifact to be salvaged by preservationists, but serves as a living, breathing, singing, laughing, and crying part of Louisiana culture. Louisiana Saturday Night takes the reader to both offbeat and traditional venues in and around Baton Rouge, Cajun country, and New Orleans, where we hear the disti...