Readers are invited to use the following bibliography on Louisiana folklife to learn more about Louisiana's cultural groups discussed in this brief sketch of Louisiana's peoples. The Recommended Reading List includes only publications that are more easily acquired.

Ancelet, Barry Jean. 1984. Musiciens cadiens et creoles: The Makers of Cajun Music. Austin: University of Texas Press.

_____. 1989a. Cajun Music: Its Origins and Development. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies.

_____. 1989b. Capitaine, Capitaine: Voyage Ton Flag. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies.

_____. 1994. Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Ancelet, Barry Jean, Jay Edwards, and Glen Pitre. 1991. Cajun Country. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Armistead, Samuel G. 1992. The Spanish Tradition in Louisiana. Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta.

Armistead, Samuel G., and H. F. Gregory. 1986. "French Loan Words in the Spanish Dialect of Sabine and Natchitoches Parishes." Louisiana Folklife 10:21-30.

Bergeron, Maida. 1988. Fait à la Main: A Sourcebook of Louisiana Crafts. Baton Rouge: Office of Cultural Development.

Bernard, Shane K. 1996. Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press.

Beyer, Jimmy. 1980. Baton Rouge Blues: A Guide to Baton Rouge Bluesmen and Their Music. Baton Rouge: Arts and Humanities Council of Greater Baton Rouge.

Bodin, Ron. 1990. Voodoo, Past and Present. Louisiana Life Series, No. 5. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies.

Brasseaux, Carl. 1987. The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginning of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

_____. 1992. Acadian to Cajun: The Transformation of a People, 1803-1877. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Brassieur, Ray. 1989. "Louisiana Boatbuilding: An Unfathomed Fortune." In 1989 Louisiana Folklife Festival. Ed. Carolyn Ware and Maida Owens. Baton Rouge: Office of Cultural Development.

Breaux, Pamela. 1995. "The Folklore of Cane River Community and the Creoles of Color Who Live There." M.A. thesis, University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Cash, W. J. 1941. The Mind of the South. New York: Vintage Books.

Comeaux, Malcolm. 1972. Atchafalaya Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations. Vol. 2 of Geoscience and Man. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University School of Geoscience.

_____. 1985. "Folk Boats of Louisiana." In Spitzer 1985, 161-78.

Cooke, John, and Mackie J-V Blanton. 1981. Perspectives on Ethnicity in New Orleans. New Orleans: University of New Orleans, Committee on Ethnicity in New Orleans.

Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana. 1992. Red Shoes' People: A History of the Sovereign Nation of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana. Elton: Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana.

de Caro, F. A. 1985. "A History of Folklife Research in Louisiana." In Spitzer 1985, 12-34.

_____. 1990. Folklife in Louisiana Photography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

de Caro, F. A., and R. A. Jordan. 1980. Louisiana Traditional Crafts. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Union Gallery.

Dreschel, Emanuel. 1979. "Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic, Sociocultural, and Historical Aspects of an American Indian Lingua Franca." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Dunbar, Sheri, and Maida Owens. 1993. Keeping It Alive: Cultural Conservation Through Apprenticeship. Baton Rouge: Office of Cultural Development. For an online version of Keeping It Alive.

Fontenot, Wonda, ed. 1994a. 1994 Malaki Festival: A Community Reunion to Celebrate Rural African American Traditions. Opelousas, La.: Wannamuse Institute for Arts, Culture, and Ethnic Studies.

_____. 1994b. Secret Doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans. Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, Greenwood Publishing Group.

Frantom, Marcy. 1993. Louisiana Folklife. Special Issue: African-American Folklife in Louisiana, vol. 17. Natchitoches: Northwestern State University, Louisiana Folklife Center.

Gardner, Joel, ed. 1983. A Better Life: Italian-Americans in South Louisiana. New Orleans: American-Italian Federation of the Southeast.

[Gardner, Joel, et al.] 1989. Folklife in the Florida Parishes. Baton Rouge: Office of Cultural Development.

Gregory, Hiram F., Jr. 1966. "The Black River Commercial Fisheries: A Study in Cultural Geography." Louisiana Studies 5:3-36.

Gregory, H. F. 1981. Doing It Right and Passing It On: North Louisiana Crafts. Alexandria, La.: Alexandria Museum of Art.

_____. 1992. "Stories of the Old People." In 1992 Louisiana Folklife Festival. Ed. Maida Owens and Peter Schwarz. Baton Rouge: Office of Cultural Development.

Gregory, H. F., and Donald W. Hatley, eds. 1992. Splittin' on the Grain: North Louisiana Crafts. Alexandria, La.: Alexandria Museum of Art.

Gutierrez, C. Page. 1992. Cajun Foodways. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. 1992. Africans of Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Hunt, Alfred H. 1988. Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Jackson, Joyce. 1989. "Music of the Black Churches." In [Gardner et al.] 1989. Pp. 97-103.

Kimball, Geoffery. 1989. Koasati Grammar. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Kniffen, Fred. 1936. " Louisiana House Types." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 26:179-93.

Kniffen, Fred, H. F. Gregory, and George A. Stokes. 1987. The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Knipmeyer, William. 1956. "Settlement Succession in Eastern French Louisiana." Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University.

_____. 1976. "Folk Boats of Eastern French Louisiana." In American Folklife. Ed. Don Yoder. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Latimer, Beverly D., and Phoebe D. Vermillion. 1988. Craft Talk: Visits with Five Traditional Louisiana Craftspeople. Lafayette: Lafayette Natural History Museum.

LeBon, Joseph Walter, Jr. 1970. "The Catahoula Hog Dog: A Cultural Trait of the Upland South." M.A. thesis, Louisiana State University.

Lindahl, Carl. 1996a. "Bakhtin's Carnival Laughter and the Cajun Country Mardi Gras." Folklore 107:49-62.

_____. 1996b. "The Presence of the Past in Cajun Mardi Gras." Journal of Folklore Research 33:101-29.

Medford, Claude, Jr., H. F. Gregory, and Don Sepulvado. 1990. The Old Ways Live: The Claude Medford, Jr. Collection. Natchitoches: Northwestern State University, Williamson Museum.

Mills, Gary B. 1977. The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Mire, Pat. 1990. Anything I Catch: The Handfishing Story. Eunice, La.: Attakapas Productions. Video.

_____. 1993. Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras. Eunice, La.: Attakapas Productions. Video.

Orso, Ethelyn. 1990. The St. Joseph Altar Traditions of South Louisiana. Louisiana Life Series, no. 4. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies.

Owens, Maida. 1989. "St. Joseph Altar." In [Gardner et al.] 1989, 134-36.

Reinecke, George F. 1985. "The National and Cultural Groups of New Orleans." In Spitzer 1985, 55-64.

Ricard, Ulysses. 1977. Lagniappe: A Louisiana French Reader. Private printing.

Riquelmy, Christina, ed. 1994. Documenting Selected Louisiana Ethnic Groups: A Theme Issue of LLA Bulletin 57:1. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Library Association. (Includes Italians, Lebanese, Vietnamese, and prehistoric, historic, and present-day Louisiana Indians: Chitimacha, Coushatta, Tunica-Biloxi, Caddo, Choctaw Apache, Clifton Choctaw, Jena Band of Choctaw, and the United Houma Nation.)

Roach, Susan. 1986. "The Traditional Quiltmaking of North Louisiana Women: Form, Function, and Meaning." Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin.

Roach-Lankford, Susan. 1984. Gifts from the Hills. Ruston: Louisiana Tech Art Gallery.

_____. 1985. "The Regional Folklife of North Louisiana." In Spitzer 1985, 87-102.

Romero, Ginger. 1987. Hungarian Folklife: "The Sweet Taste of Yesterday" in the Florida Parishes of Southeast Louisiana. Folklife in the Florida Parishes Series, vol. 3. Hammond: Southwestern Louisiana University, Center for Regional Studies.

Romero, Virginia. 1989. "Hungarian Folklife in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana." In [Gardner et al.] 1989, 68-76.

Saloom, Yvonne Nassar, and I. Bruce Turner. 1994. "Roots of the Cedar: The Lebanese Heritage in Louisiana." Louisiana Library Association Bulletin 57, no. 1 (Summer): 31-42.

Savoy, Ann. 1984. Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People. Eunice, La.: Bluebird Press.

Smith, Michael. 1984. Spirit World. Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing.

_____. 1990. Make a Joyful Noise: A Celebration of New Orleans Music. Dallas: Taylor Publishing.

_____. 1994. Mardi Gras Indians. Gretna, La.: Pelican Press.

Snyder, Karen. 1990. "The Creole Controversy." Cultural Vistas 1, no. 1 (Spring).

Sonnier, Austin, Jr. 1990. Second Linin': Jazzmen of Southwest Louisiana, 1900-1950. Louisiana Life Series, no. 3. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, Center for Louisiana Studies.

Spitzer, Nicholas R. 1977. "Cajuns and Creoles: The French Gulf Coast." In The Long Journey Home: Folklife in the South. Ed. Allen Tullos. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Southern Exposure.

_____, ed. 1985. Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State. Baton Rouge: Office of Cultural Development.

_____. 1991. "Lifelines of a Woods Cowboy." Cultural Vistas 2, no. 2 (Summer): 15, 28-31.

Tregle, Joseph G., Jr. 1992. "Creoles and Americans " In Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization. Ed. Arnold R. Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Tucker, Stephen. 1989. "Rock and Roll." In Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

United Houma Nation. [n.d.] The Houma People of Louisiana: A Story of Indian Survival. Golden Meadow, La.: United Houma Nation.

Walker, Rose. 1989. "Textile Uses in the Homes of Central Louisiana Czechs." In 1989 Louisiana Folklife Festival. Ed. Carolyn Ware and Maida Owens. Baton Rouge: Office of Cultural Development.

Ware, Carolyn. 1995. "‘I Read the Rules Backward’: Women, Symbolic Inversion, and the Cajun Mardi Gras Run." Southern Folklore 52 (2): 137-60.

Warren, Karen, 1982. Feast of St. Joseph: Labor of Love by the Faithful. Folklife in the Florida Parishes Series, vol. 1. Hammond: Southeastern Louisiana University, Center for Regional Studies.

In addition to the works above, consult the following reference works and periodicals which contain substantial information on Louisiana's traditional cultures.

Cultural Vistas. New Orleans: Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

Louisiana Folklife. Natchitoches: Louisiana Folklife Society.

Louisiana Folklore Miscellany. New Orleans: Louisiana Folklore Society.

Southern Folklore. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

Wilson, Charles Reagan, and William Ferris, eds. 1989. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Articles from the Louisiana Folklife Festival booklets are also online.