Harriet J. Bauman
Creole Music
Most of the songs of the Creole show a definite influence of the Latin regime of the Spanish and French colonists of Louisiana, and are not dissimilar in origin from the spirituals of the Negro race, which form a part of what we know as American folk music. (Herrin, p. 71)
Songs sung in Creole patois came from the plantations and the French Quarter of New Orleans. They included lullabies, love songs, songs about unhappiness or loneliness, and humorous songs about everyday life. The majority of Louisiana music is Cajun and has been discussed in my 1991 unit as well as two important books: The Makers of Cajun Music by Barry Jean Ancelet (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press), 1984, and Cajun Music A Reflection of a People Vol. 1, edited by Ann Allen Savoy (Eunice, Louisiana: Bluebird Press, Inc.), 1984.
