Interview with Barry Jean Ancelet (cont.)

Accession No.: 
BE1-095

00:00 - Organizing the first Cajun Music Festival; Keith Cravey and Carol Rachou's roles in the festival;
03:30 - Booking artists for the festival, Paul Tate resigning from the committee;
04:40 - No artists were paid, but they all showed up and performed;
05:20 - Purposely designed the festival to not allow dancing. They considered having it in Bayou Bijou, then the Heymann Center before settling on Blackham Colosseum;
07:30 - Discussing why the festival was so important; Getting the public involved in the revival;; Was referred to as a "Grassroots rally";
09:30 - Domengeaux admits that he was wrong about how the festival would turn out;
12:20 - Moving the festival to Girard Park; Combining the crafts festival with the music festival
13:00 - Music festival breaks up with CODOFIL in 1980;
15:45 - First poster featuring Canray Fontenot;
17:00 - Arguments between Ancelet and Domengeaux;
18:30 - Discussion about Barry's early poetry;
22:30 - "How can you encourage people to be proud of themselves when they're declaring that they're proud to be coonasses?" Barry feels that many people internalized the stigma;
23:20 - "The Faulk Issue" - James Donald Faulk's textbook "Cajun French," was a collection of phrases and vocabulary. He and many others felt that they needed to teach kids to teach French that kids could use with their grandparents. There were two columns in addition to the phrases in the book - English and a pronunciation guide using English phonetics. They tried to talk him into adding a third column written with the French spelling system exactly how a Cajun would say it.

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Shane K. Bernard
Subject: 
CODOFIL; French language; Cajun; Creole Music; Festivals
Creator: 
Shane Bernard
Informants: 
Barry Jean Ancelet
Recording date: 
Friday, February 27, 1998
Coverage Spatial: 
Lafayette, LA
Publisher: 
Shane K. Bernard
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Language: 
English
Meta Information
Duration: 
31:01
Cataloged Date: 
Monday, April 8, 2024
Original Format: 
Cassette - 60
Digital Format: 
AIFF
Bit Depth: 
16
Sampling Rate: 
44.1k
Storage Location: 
Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore