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<br> Though Cajun music has been depicted as a Louisiana oddity, it was, by definition, international from the start. Ryan Brasseaux places Cajun music in the mainstream of American music, where it belongs. The folkloric myth of purity and isolation dissolves before his historical contextualization of the synchronicity of Cajun life and art with national and global trends. Cajun music changed over time and with the times. Its trans-Atlantic, French, Canadian, and southern roots lapped and twined into an American art form. The music becomes all the more original, adaptive, and brilliant when heard through Brasseaux's riveting depiction. --Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History Yale University<br> In Cajun Breakdown, Ryan Brasseaux eloquently traces the history of Cajun people and their music from their arrival in Louisiana in 1764 to the present. His fine book firmly establishes Cajun music as a central part of mainstream American culture. --William

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Louisiana native Ryan André Brasseaux is a doctoral student at Yale University. A former Research Associate for public radio's American Routes hosted by Nick Spitzer, Brasseaux has served as a Cajun cultural expert for the National Council for the Traditional Arts, Associated Press, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, National Film Board of Canada, and the Food Network. He has lectured across the country, including the keynote address at Nashville's International Country Music Conference and invited lectures at Yale University, Tulane University, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, and to gatherings of Fullbright scholars.

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