Center for Louisiana Studies Archival Catalog
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Houma Tribal Centre
Vin Bruce ; chanteurs noirs ; rock Ôn roll ; noirs francophones ; Full gospel church ; messes en franais ; prtres canadiens ; nouvelles en franais ; Žducation ; diffŽrences du langage ; adult education ; GED ; Indian ; Chitimacha ; Houma Indian ; gazette ; couillon ; garde ˆ manger ; Terrebonne ; LaFourche ; Tribal council ; racial mixing ; Indians ; Newfoundland ; segregation ; racism ; French-speaking blacks in New Orleans ; oral tradition ; illiteracy ; Indian pottery ; palmetto artisinal ; moss slippers ; medicine-women ; cultural divisions among Indians ; immigration ; chinois ;
Interview of Bob Curole (KLEB) by Eric Waddell
publicitŽ pour Delta Tire and Distribution ; radio broadcast ; interview ; perte de franais en Louisiane ; CODOFIL ; intert canadien au franais louisianais ; moyen dÕ‰ge des auditeurs de la programmation franaise ; particularitŽs rŽgionales du langage ; Nouvelle-OrlŽans ; Houma ; stations radios francophones en Louisiane ; musiciens cadiens ; country/western ; Vin Bruce ; Les Domingue ; ÒThey All Asked for YouÓ ; The Meters ; Clifton Chenier ; Michelle Richard ; ÔTit Blanc Richard ; Nancy Tabb Marcantel ; ÒAcadianaÓ ; George Langford ; Michel Fugain ; ÒLes acadiens et les acadiennesÓ ; Doug Kershaw ; The Mamas and the Papas ; le franais au Canada ; indiens au Canada ; Buffy Sainte-Marie ; American Forces Radio ; auditeurs de la programmation franaise ; publicitŽs en franais
Interview of M. and Mme Loulan Pitre (I) by Lili Vaillancourt
Chansons Dudley Bernard, KVPI
Valse de Kaplan ; marchŽ de chars ; Two-step de Eunice ; publicitŽ des tracteurs ;
Interview of Dajin Guillory (I) by Eric Waddell
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Interview of Bob Francis
radio broadcast ; (blank after 24:30)
Interview of Louis Lejeune
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Interview of Dajin Guillory (II) by Eric Waddell
Chanson de Dudley Bernard ; Golden Meadow ; Louis LeJeune ; chanter ; BBQ ; expressions franaises ; fabrication des violons ; accordŽons ; Marc Savoy ; accordŽons allemands ; qualitŽ et prix des instruments musicaux ; ÒJÕai passŽ devant ta porteÓ ; ÒJolie blondeÓ ; Square dance ; ÒPetite ou la grosseÓ ; Joe Bonsall ; ÒBad, Bad Leroy BrownÓ ; ÒMon cher (bon) vieux mariÓ ; Allons danser ColindaÓ ; ÒTu peux cogner mais tu peux pas rentrerÓ ;
Dewey Balfa - In-school Cajun music presentation with Rodney Balfa and Freeman Fontenot
00:00 - Artists in Schools program origins;
01:30 - Newport Folk Festival;
04:00 - Dewey explains how the grant program works;
08:00 - Dewey say's the Acadians came down to Louisiana with fiddles and percussion instruments;
09:49 - Chère Tout Tout;
12:15 - Explaining Cajun seconding on fiddle; Band Introductions;
16:25 - Example of Cajun seconding on fiddle;
18:30 - Dewey talks about the origins of the diatonic accordion;
19:58 - Demonstrating a waltz on the accordion;
22:20 - Eunice two step on Accordion;
30:55 - French in Louisiana;
Dewey Balfa - In-school Cajun music presentation with Rodney Balfa and Freeman Fontenot
00:00 - La valse de Bayou Chène;
04:30 - Dewey introduces Freeman Fontenot; Explains how old tunes were titled;
06:38 - Freeman Fontenot - Baisse bas;
09:00 - Freeman Fontenot - Untitled tune;
10:34 - Bonsoir, Moreaux;
13:11 - Freeman demonstrates a Mazurka, they go into Bonsoir, Moreaux;
16:30 - La valse des Rougeaux
18:45 - Jolie Blonde
21:45 - Les veuves de la coulée
25:25 - Hick's Wagon Wheel Special
Dewey Balfa - In-school Cajun music presentation with Rodney Balfa and Freeman Fontenot
Same performance as PR1-002
00:00 - La valse de Bayou Chène;
04:30 - Dewey introduces Freeman Fontenot; Explains how old tunes were titled;
06:38 - Freeman Fontenot - Baisse bas;
09:00 - Freeman Fontenot - Untitled tune;
10:34 - Bonsoir, Moreaux;
13:11 - Freeman demonstrates a Mazurka, they go into Bonsoir, Moreaux;
16:30 - La valse des Rougeaux
18:45 - Jolie Blonde
21:45 - Les veuves de la coulée
25:25 - Hick's Wagon Wheel Special
Freeman Fontenot - Solo Performance Recorded at Freeman's Home in 1977
From tracklist that was included with tape:
00:45 - La valse de 1916;
02:55 - Untitled two step;
04:35 - Born and raised between Mamou and Eunice, Mentions that he didn't go to school
05:10 - La valse du chemin (1924) with a short explanation for how they danced to the song;
06:48 - Blues de 1938;
08:35 - Mazurka - Freeman explains how people danced to the Mazurka;
11:00 - Two step de Bilkin;
13:24 - La Robe Barée;
16:00 - Two step de Eunice;
19:20 - Two step sans titre (similar to Jolie Bassette);
22:15 - Baisse bas;
24:52 - Petit Moreau;
27:46 - Blues Noir;
Freeman Fontenot
02:20 - Fifi Foncho
04:29 - Two step Platte
05:58 - Two step de Mamou
07:35 - Valse de Samedi au soir
09:12 - Valse de Trainer
11:02 - Deux Cousines
15:45 - Pain de Mais
17:20 - Hathaway two step
19:10 - Love Bridge Waltz
22:30 - La pointe aux pins
23:50 - Dixieland
25:12 - J'ai étais au bal
26:35 - Two step sans titre
28:11 - Contredanse
30:10 - Shoefly
Sterling and Felix Richard with Bessyl Duhon
00:08 - Les flammes d'enfer (take 1);
03:30 - Les flammes d'enfer (take 2);
06:58 - Duralde Waltz;
10:00 - Instrumental two step;
11:42 - Chère tout tout
16:50 - Kaplan Waltz;
19:20 - 99 Year Waltz
22:47 - Instrumental two step
24:58 - The Back Door
26:58 - Instrumental Waltz
29:20 - Kaplan Waltz
31:07 - J'ai étais au bal
33:50 - Madame Sosthaine
Interview of Ola Abshire on 23th august 1991
0:47 her last name was Boudreaux before she got married
1:02 she was born in January 23th
1:21 she is 74 years old
1:39 she was born at Baker
1:43 they moved to Bellville when she was 12 years old
2:20she got married at Gueydan
5:16 she was working for a woman named Zoula
5:43 she was working in a restaurant
6:35 she was a cooker and a waitress
7:43 she never went to school
9:45 she was 10 when she started working
11:09 she had 10 siblings
11:36 her mom was only speaking English and her dad was only speaking French
14:57 she wasn’t working at home or helping her mom until she got married
15:26 she only washed dishes at her parents’ house
15:40 her mom never teach her how to cook
17:36 she was the youngest of 11 kids
18:41 she never hangout with boys when she was young
21:10 her dad never let her go to bals
23:03 she wasn’t going to church went she was young
25:07 to have meat her family was buying the animals and killing it later
30:12 her husband was few years younger than her
30:30 her husband started playing music after they got married
31:52 she got married by a judge
33:17 her dad told her before she got married that her future husband wasn’t a good person
33:30 her husband was an alcoholic
33:45 he started drinking when they got married
34:06 she said that most musician was alcoholic
37:07 she had 4 witness at her wedding
37:59 she got married Monday June 23rd
44:44 when she had kids she stayed at home with them
47:44 her husband was rarely home
48:15 she always spend her husband money the way she wanted
49:37 her husband was spending almost all the money in alcohol
49:50 Most of the time her husband wasn’t getting paid when he was playing music
58:10 she doesn’t have a car but she know someone who can bring her to Eunice if she needs to
59:44 she is having a lot of trouble for walking
Interview of Ola Abshire on 31st august 1991 in Basile
0:48 she liked the music that her husband was paying
1:37 her husband learned accordion when he was 18 years old
1:52 his uncle show him how to play
9:56 he wasn’t talking about work to her
14:10 she have no record of her husband’s music
14:41 she only have a radio
17:10 she doesn’t have her husband accordion no more
17:35 she sold her husband accordion for 800 dollars
18:05 she needed money when her husband died
23:07 when Nathan found out he had a cancer he started drinking even more
23:14 he was always drunk and never sober
25:24 her husband never wrote a song for her
27: 00 to 48:00 showing pictures of Nathan
52:41 a lot of people used to come visit at her house but not anymore since her husband died
57:17 Nathan never let anybody sing his songs
58:19 he had a very bad temper
Interview of Wilma Leger on September the 28th in Welsh
0:39 her maiden name was Blanchard
0:40 she was born June 5th 1932 in church point
1:13 her dad was Fedo Blanchard and her mom Adeline Lejeune
2:17 her dad was working with cotton
4:11 she had 2 brothers and 2 sisters
6:10 she used to clean houses
7:44 she went to balls few times
9:07 girls was going to the ball for free but boys at to pay
11:01 she met her husband when she was 15 years old
14:22 she didn’t listen to her husband music since he died
16:48 they got married at church in Welsh but it was a little wedding reception
21:00 they lived in a trailer after they got married
22:07 she had 6 kids
28:09 he learn how to play music by himself with the accordion of his dad
34:36 her husband was gone every weekend
39:24 he was playing violin too
41:36 he only wrote one song for his wife
48:21 her husband went to school in Baton Rouge
59:22 they didn’t had phone at this time so someone came tell her that her husband got in an accident and he died
1:00:36 he got berried in Rayne
Interview of Wilma Leger on September the 28th in Welsh
0:55 she wasn’t staying home to help her mom but she was working in the cultivated land
2:20 her parents was only talking French
3:47 she always been going to church every Sunday
6:45 she is doing sewing and learn at school
9:21 her mom was cooking but not baking
Interview of Artile Fontenot on September the 28th in Welsh
0:51 her maiden name was Matthew
1:08 her is born September 28th 1929 in Basile
1:59 she lived in Basile, Oberlin and Welsh
3:48 she was working in cotton in Basile when she was young
5:14 she had 11 siblings
6:15 her grandma lived 105 years
10:47 she went to school but not her older siblings
14:22 she went to school at Ulla because they didn’t had any school in Basile
14:37 all the grade was going in the same class
17:29 she went to school 6 years
17:54 she was 14 when she got married
18:55 she never date her husband she just meet him one day and he asked her if she wanted to get married
19:05 her dad wasn’t happy about it
20:05 she got married at St Augustine Church in Basile
20:44 her dad didn’t want to sign because he wasn’t happy so her brother sign the marriage license
22:43 she used to not go out without her brothers because they were her chaperon
27:35 her mom show her how to cook and clean
29:50 she had 6 kids 2 boys and 4 girls
37:25 she never played music with her husband
45 to 54 hard to understand
56:41 she bought a sewing machine to start working
1:00:07 she was going to religion class when she was younger
Interview of Artile Fontenot on September the 28th in Welsh
4:45 her husband was drinking a lot when he was playing
14:14 they were only speaking French in her family
14:30 her mom died when she was 57 years old
21:41 her mom used to beat her but she gave her a good education
25:05 she has no regrets in her life
Interview of Euna Bolfa on September the 13th in Eunice
0:44 her maiden name was Marie Euna Fontenot
1:07 she was born in Mamou
1:23 she lived all her life in Mamou
1:50 she didn’t went to school for long because she was always sick
3:04 her sister finished school
4:00 her dad was a farmer
6:40 she used to work with her dad and hate this job
9:02 she used to go to balls when she was younger every 2 weeks
11:25 she was a very good dancer
16:54 she knew her husband family before she met him
19:18 when her husband was her boyfriend he cheated on her so she didn’t talk to him for 3 months
23:47 he went ask her parents before he married her
25:47 her wedding reception was big for the time
26:35 she got married in the Catholic Church in Mamou
27:21 she got married in 1936
27:53 she’s born August 19th 1918
35:58 she used to go listen when her husband was playing
38:49 she stopped going to balls to listen to his music 9 years before he died
45:47 she never worried about her husband when he was gone
47:50 her husband went play in France
54:46 her husband was drinking whisky and beer
55:38 her husband was saying that alcohol was helping him to sing and play better
57:30 her husband never bought her gif when he was traveling
Interview of Euna Bolfa
3:25 to 16:58 they are talking about a woman who had a baby and wasn’t married
18:49 the woman had 6 weeks off work when they were pregnant
19:45 she never had problem for delivering her children
35:16 the man wasn’t taking care of the babies but some of them was helping more at the house
38:50 her husband was different because he was helping her with the kids
40:24 she named her kids after people from her family
41:25 they have stories about went the belly button of a baby was falling down. If you bury it under a fig tree the baby will sign well
43:47 her grandpa used to say when an eclipse was coming
48:43 when her future husband proposed to her they decided they will get married in 6 weeks
54:03 when they got married they were very poor and she was worried about money
Interview with Naise Fontenot
histoire de famille; lÕŽcole; la recolte, ramasser du coton; des patates; les enfants; la maison; les amusements; faire cuir du ma s tendre; faire cuire des patates avec de la crme; les priŽres en franais; lire; lÕeducation des filles; des jupes; des bloomers; du riz; la crme; la cuisine; stove en bois; boucaner de la viande; le glacire; lÕŽctricitŽ, travailler;
Interview with Naise Fontenot
du coton; la taufe; lÕouvrage au magazine; le marriage; les noces; la maison; faire lÕamour; le mensruation; les boucheries; la mauvaise viande; une femme en famille; le franais; les maladies; les docteurs; les femmes sages; la naissance; soigner des enfants; la morte du mari; Oregon;
Interview with Naise Fontenot
deuxime marriage; les clos dÕhuile; le baptisme;
Interview with Naise Fontenot
la musique de Freeman Fontenot; les contredanses; des robes; des petits enfants; des maladies; la messe; les noms de familles; des catholiques; lÕestomach des mulattes (gateau); les tarts; bouiller de sucre; nšel;
Interview with Gertrude Fontenot
nom de famille; lÕenfance; travail dans le clos; les charrues; la recolte; le crochet; la famille; les outils; la coudre; lÕŽcole; la cuisine; les amusements; le mariage;
Interview with Gertrude Fontenot
les amusements des jeunes; des pralines; des boules de tac tac; les ecrevisses; les bals; la naissance; les cerceuils; nourrir au sein; la naissance; le baptisme; sirop;
Interview with Gertrude Fontenot
Boudin; la cochonerie; travail dans le clos; le sirop; le coton;
Interview with Gertrude Fontenot
la famille McGee; des Millers; lÕaccordeon; Arteman FrugŽ; la musique; les bals; des femmes qui jouiait la musique; des bals de maison; Dennis McGee; Bois-sec Ardoin; son fils; Amedee Ardoin; le marriage; boire;
Interview with Ola Abshire
nom de naissance; lÕenfance; marriage; Nathan Abshire; travail dans le restaurant; lÕŽcole; la rŽcolte; la campagne; la famille; bals de maison; des danses; des amusements; la cuisine; journŽe typique; le marriage; en famille; lÕargent; ˆ boire;
Interview with Ola Abshire
Side AMusique et vie de Nathan Abshire;
Interview with Ola Abshire
Side BLa musique et la vie de Nathan Abshire;
Interview with Ola Abshire
Side ALa musique et la vie de Nathan Abshire; les enregistrements;
Interview with Wilma Leger
Side Anom de naissance; lÕenfance; la rŽcolte; des salles de danses; Iry Lejeune; la noce;
Interview with Wilma Leger
Side Bla musique de Iry Lejeune; lÕaccordeon volŽ; Žcrire des chansons; Love Bridge Waltz; lÕŽcole; les enfants; voyager; la morte de Iry;
Interview with Wilma Leger
travail dans le clos; le cathŽchisme; la couture; la cuisine;
Interview with Artille Fontenot
Oberlin; lÕenfance; travail dans le clos; faire le menage; la musique de Canray Fontenot;
Interview with Artille Fontenot
la musique de Canray Fontenot; la vie avec un musicien; les chansons de Canray Fontenot; les amusements; le cathŽchisme;
Interview with Artile Fontenot
La vie et la musique de Canray Fontenot; ˆ boire; Bois-sec Ardoin; la musique Zydeco; le franais; la famille; Canray et les enfants