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Accordion Dreams: A Journey Into Cajun and Creole Music
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Accordion Dreams: A Journey Into Cajun and Creole Music Hardcover - 2009

by Blair Kilpatrick


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By age thirty-nine, Blair Kilpatrick had settled into life as a practicing psychologist, wife, and mother. Then a chance encounter in New Orleans turned her world upside down. She returned home to Chicago with unlikely new passions for Cajun music and its defining instrument, the accordion. Captivated by recurring dreams of playing the Cajun accordion, she set out to master it. Yet she was not a musician, was too self-conscious to dance, and didn't even sing in the shower.

Kilpatrick's obsession took her from Chicago's Cajun dance scene to a folk music camp in West Virginia, back and forth to south Louisiana, and even to a Cajun festival in France. An unexpected family move brought her to the San Francisco Bay Area, home to the largest Cajun-zydeco music scene outside the Gulf Coast. There she became a protg of renowned accordionist Danny Poullard, a Louisiana-born Creole and the guiding spirit of the local Louisiana French music community.

Engaging, uplifting, and illuminating a unique patch of the American cultural landscape, Accordion Dreams is Kilpatrick's account of the possibility of passion, risk-taking, and change--at any age.

Blair Kilpatrick has an independent practice in psychotherapy in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also performs and records with Sauce Piquante, a traditional Cajun-Creole band she founded in the late 1990s. Learn more at www.blairkilpatrick.com

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An outsider's account of her transformative obsession with Louisiana's joyous music

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  • Title Accordion Dreams: A Journey Into Cajun and Creole Music
  • Author Blair Kilpatrick
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition (1st edition, 1s
  • Pages 250
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
  • Date 2009-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781604731019 / 160473101X
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Cajun
  • Library of Congress subjects Kilpatrick, Blair, Accordionists - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008020370
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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