Accordionist Stanley Dural, Jr., was zydeco's most commercially successful performer and an unofficial ambassador of the musical genre and Creole culture. Better known as "Buckwheat Zydeco," Dural helped introduce traditional Creole music to the mainstream.
For more than half a century, photographer C. C. Lockwood has documented Louisiana’s natural features, landscapes, flora, and fauna.
Cajun dance halls–salles de danse– are live music venues where dancing, courtship, and community building transpire.
Cajun folklife is a field of study that describes, catalogs, and deciphers meaning within the vernacular culture of Acadian refugees who settled in Louisiana.
Cajun Folktales are heavily influenced by French, West African, Caribbean, Acadian, German, and American South oral traditions.
Louisiana’s Cajun music has been influenced by a rich blend of musical traditions.
Cajun music is a genre that arose in southwestern Louisiana from the Francophone folk music traditions of the Acadians.
Cajuns are the descendants of Acadian exiles from what are now the maritime provinces of Canada–Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island–who migrated to southern Louisiana.
Acadians, Cajuns, and their history became part of American literature, often represented through romantic myth.
Louisiana's Calvin Borel is the only jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times in a four-year span.
A lawsuit filed by a man against his employer resulted in a ruling establishing Cajuns as a federally recognized ethnic group.
Located along the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana, Cancer Alley is home to the highest concentration of heavy industry in the United States, with residents reporting high rates of cancer, heart disease, respiratory illnesses, and autoimmune disease.
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