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Film, Video Dennis Stroughmatt et L'Esprit Creole: Upper Louisiana French Creole Music from Missouri

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Title

  • Dennis Stroughmatt et L'Esprit Creole: Upper Louisiana French Creole Music from Missouri

Summary

  • By an amazing string of chance events, young Dennis Stroughmatt came upon the descendants of French Midwestern settlers, and he spent over three years in southeast Missouri learning to speak Illinois French Creole, play the fiddle, and sing many of the traditional songs that have thrived in the region for over three hundred years. He would also go on to live, work and play music in the "Cajun country" of Louisiana, and to study in Quebec, thus completing the circle of French culture in North America. With the blessing of the Creole people of the Midwest, Dennis Stroughmatt et l'Espirit Creole are its passionate ambassadors, expanding interest and excitement in a region that has been, in many ways, ignored by the history books. As a result, the French music, language, stories, and culture once hidden away in the Missouri Ozarks now has a voice in the wider world. As they say in the hills: "On est toujours icitte: We are still here!"

Names

  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body
  • Library of Congress

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2012-06-21.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Performing Arts, Music

Notes

  • -  Classification: Fine Arts.
  • -  Classification: General Works.
  • -  Dennis Stroughmatt.
  • -  Recorded on 2012-06-21.
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  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Visitors.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688912

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

American Folklife Center, Sponsoring Body, and Library Of Congress. Dennis Stroughmatt et L'Esprit Creole: Upper Louisiana French Creole Music from Missouri. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-21, 2012. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688912/.

APA citation style:

American Folklife Center, S. B. & Library Of Congress. (2012) Dennis Stroughmatt et L'Esprit Creole: Upper Louisiana French Creole Music from Missouri. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-21. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688912/.

MLA citation style:

American Folklife Center, Sponsoring Body, and Library Of Congress. Dennis Stroughmatt et L'Esprit Creole: Upper Louisiana French Creole Music from Missouri. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -06-21, 2012. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688912/>.