{"id":44336,"date":"2015-11-28T21:50:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44336"},"modified":"2016-03-25T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:30:41","slug":"in-the-creole-twilight-poems-and-songs-from-louisiana-folklore%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44336","title":{"rendered":"In the Creole Twilight: Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\/books\/detail\/in-the-creole-twilight\/\" target=\"_blank\">In the Creole Twilight: Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana State University Press<\/a><br \/>\nSeptember 2015<br \/>\n88 pages<br \/>\n6.00 x 9.00 inches<br \/>\n30 halftones<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780807161548<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuacleggcaffery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Clegg Caffery<\/a><\/strong>, Visiting Professor in Folklore<br \/>\n<em>Indiana University, Bloomington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\/books\/detail\/in-the-creole-twilight\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lsupress.org\/assets\/press-kits\/2015\/08\/55e08034183a8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many recurring motifs found in south <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana\u2019s<\/a> culture spring from the state\u2019s rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of European and African heritage, celebrated customs like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Courir_de_Mardi_Gras\" target=\"_blank\">Courir de Mardi Gras<\/a> and fabled creatures like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Werewolf\" target=\"_blank\">Loup-Garou<\/a> are outgrowths of the region\u2019s distinctive oral traditions. Joshua Clegg Caffery\u2019s <em>In the Creole Twilight<\/em> draws from this vibrant and diverse legacy to create an accessible reimagining of traditional storytelling and song.<\/p>\n<p>A scholar and Grammy-nominated musician, Caffery borrows from the syllabic structures, rhyme schemes, narratives, and settings that characterize Louisiana songs and tales to create new verse that is both well-researched and refreshingly inventive. Paired with original pen-and-ink illustrations as well as notes that clarify the origins of characters and themes, Caffery\u2019s compositions provide a link to the old worlds of southern Louisiana while constructing an entirely new one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Creole Twilight: Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore Louisiana State University Press September 2015 88 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 30 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807161548 Joshua Clegg Caffery, Visiting Professor in Folklore Indiana University, Bloomington Many recurring motifs found in south Louisiana\u2019s culture spring from the state\u2019s rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,459,369,8,1617,20],"tags":[22102,1051,885],"class_list":["post-44336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-usa","tag-joshua-clegg-caffery","tag-louisiana-state-university-press","tag-lsu-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46219,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44336\/revisions\/46219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}