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Barry Jean Ancelet
Professor of French
The Willis Granger and Tom Debaillon/BORSF Professorship in Francophone Studies I
Research Fellow, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Doctorat de 3e cycle, Université de Provence [Aix-Marseille I], 1984 |
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| Books Published |
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- Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana (New York: Garland Publishing / University Press of Mississippi, 1994 [Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1994; American Folklore Society Alcée Fortier Award, 1994]),
- Cajun Country, Folklife in the South series, co-authored with Jay Edwards and Glen Pitre (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991)
- The Makers of Cajun Music / Musiciens cadiens et créoles ( Austin: University of Texas Press; and Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec; 1984 [Louisiana Library Association Honor Book, 1985]); revised edition,
- Cajun and Creole Music Makers (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999), Anthologie: Littérature française de la Louisiane, ed., with Mathé Allain (Bedford, NH: National Bilingual Materials Development Center, 1981),
- Cajun Music: Origins and Development ( Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies Publications, 1989),
- Capitaine, voyage ton flag! The Traditional Cajun Country Mardi Gras, with photo essay by James Edmunds (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies Publications, 1989).
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| Journals |
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- Journal of American Folklore, Southern Folklore, Louisiana Folklore Miscellany,Journal of the Folklore Institute, Présence Francophone, Francophonies d'Amérique, Etudes de linguistique appliquée, Journal of Popular Culture, Black Music Research Journal, Folklore Notebook, The French Review, and International Journal of Oral History, among others; along with over 20 book chapters and dozens of encyclopedia entries, including in The American Music Atlas, Grove's Encyclopedia of Music, Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies,The Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, and Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
- Currently involved in the production of a dictionary of Cajun French with a team of colleagues coordinated through Indiana University.
- Photographs featured in several publications, including Gutierrez's Cajun Foodways and Lindahl and Ware's Cajun Mardi Gras Masks, as well as several museum exhibitions, including "Rich Traits of the Cajun Mardi Gras,"Galerie 911, Lafayette.
- Notes and/or transcriptions and translations for over 50 Cajun music and Zydeco recordings on a number of labels including Rounder, Arhoolie, Swallow, Shanecke, La Louisianne, Flying Fish, Blacktop, and Morning Star; production for several recording projects, including Varise Conner (Louisiana Folk Masters series, Louisiana Crossroads Records), Cajun Music & Zydeco I and II (Rounder), Louisiana Cajun and Creole Music, 1934: The Lomax Recordings, (Swallow; reissued as Rounder CD set, vols. 1 and 2), and Festival de musique acadienne, 1981: Live (Swallow Records).
- Over 180 papers and guest lectures, panels and forums at numerous academic conferences, including AFS, MLA, French Colonial Historical Association, National Council for the Social Studies, American Music Librarians Conference, American Musicological Society, Popular Culture Association, American Culture Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Conference on Humor, American Studies Association, American Philological Association, American Association of Teachers of French, and Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, among others.
- Numerous poetry readings (as Jean Arceneaux), including Le Son Constellation, Festival de la Parole, Maison Richelieu, Baie Sainte-Marie, Nova Scotia; Northrup Fry Literary Festival, Moncton; Soirée de poésie, Montréal; Congrès Mondial des Acadiens, Bouctouche (New Brunswick); La nuit internationale de poésie / Salon du Livre de l'Outaouais, Hull (Québec); Paroles et musique, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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- Fieldworker/presenter for Festival International de Louisiane, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife and the National Folk Festival, the American Folklife Center, and the Cultural Olympiad at the Atlanta Olympics. Research consultant and fieldworker for numerous radio and television programs and over three dozen documentary films, including Pat Mire's Dance for a Chicken: The Cajun Mardi Gras and Anything I Catch: The Handfishing Story, Karen Snyder's Cajun Crossroads, Alan Lomax's Lache pas la patate: Cajun Country, André Gladu's Zarico Yannick Resch'sLes Cajuns, Chris Strachwitz's J'ai été au bal: The Cajun and Zydeco Music of Louisiana, AmerImage's Contre vents et contre marées, and Glen Pitre'sGood for What Ails You, as well as Côte Blanche's Conteurs de la Louisiane radio storytelling series; associate producer and principal scholar for Pat Mire's Against the Tide: The Story of the Cajun People of Louisiana (Louisiana Public Broadcasting).Curator/contributor for several museum exhibitions, including the permanent Mardi Gras exhibit at the Louisiana State Museum, and 6 exhibits for the Lafayette Natural History Museum on various aspects of folk culture.
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- Host, Rendez-vous des Cadiens, weekly radio program sponsored by the City of Eunice, the Acadian Culture Center and the Jean Lafitte National Park, 1987-; Festival Director, Festival de Musique Acadienne, Lafayette, 1974, 1976-. 24 professional training workshops and seminars on a variety of issues, including cultural tourism and the integration of regional language, oral tradition, traditional culture and music in the classroom, for teacher organizations in Louisiana, Texas, Maine and Nova Scotia; participant, Louisiana Voices: Folklife in Education teacher training program. 14 seminars and lectures on Louisiana French language, culture, music and literature in a number of institutions, including the Université Ste Anne (Nova Scotia), Middlebury College (Vermont), the Nevada State Museum and Historical Society, UCLA's Ethnomusicology program, St. Lawrence University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Indiana University, and the University of Houston; presenter at Utah State's Fife Conference (1993).
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| Related positions |
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- American Folklore Society, executive board, 1989-92; Louisiana Folklore Society, executive board, 1984-90; 1992-2000; member, Regional Humanities Initiative Advisory Board, University of Mississippi/Center for Southern Culture, 1999-; Host, Rendez-vous des Cadiens, weekly radio program sponsored by the City of Eunice, the Acadian Culture Center and the Jean Lafitte National Park, 1987-; Project Director and Consultant (Folklore), Master Plan for Jean Lafitte National Park Acadian Culture Centers, Hamilton & Associates/National Park Service, 1986-87; member, Festival International de Louisiane Board of Directors, 1986-87; president, Festival de Musique Acadienne / Cajun Music Festival Executive Board, 1986-; member, Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, 1985-1996; 2005-.
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| Awards |
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- Fellow, American Folklore Society; Chevalier, Palmes Académiques (France); James William Rivers Award for Louisiana Studies; Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Special Humanities Award; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation Distinguished Professor; Ordre des Francophones d'Amérique(Québec).
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