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Louisiana and Cajun? |
Travel Info I just want to say, when you live in new orleans and anywhere else for that matter in louisiana, most people do not listen to banjo cajun music. I cant tell you how much it aggravates me to watch movies based in louisiana and all you hear is banjos and those wash board things with the spoons. and not everyone talks in a cajun or countyry accent! DOES ANYONE ELSE AGREE WITH ME! Travel Tips Yes, it IS aggravating. I'm a New Orleans tourguide and I would always tell my groups that New Orleans is NOT Cajun, and has NO Cajuns living there. Yes, you can find Cajun food and music in New Orleans, but I tell them that to see the REAL Cajun culture, they have to go to south central La. What gets my goat is that people from everywhere else think that all Southerners should speak with a Southern accent, and New Orleans people most certainly DO NOT have a Southern accent. I tell people the Cajun accent is very distinct and is easily differentiated from a Southern accent. I don't speak with a Southern accent, because I spent my childhood in the Midwest, though I was born in Jefferson Parish and lived in Luling till age 6. Others true, it's not what you hear on the radio most of the time. i hang out in louisiana a few times a year and the music you describe is zydeco. cajun is actually accordions and violins, not much on the banjo. however, you have to realize that stuff IS louisiana, like it or not. and it's good fun music. i agree with you. my grandpa and alot of my aunts and uncles and cousins live in New Orleans and they speak like me and i live in California. when i went to New Orleans i was suprised because i have seen so many movies that show them speaking with a accent but most the ppl i met talked with no accent at all. when i was there we went to this place i dont remember the names but they played all sorts of music. lots of jazz also I totally agree. I live in West Monroe and it is not the hillbilly crawfish town everyone stereotypes it as. Of course we do eat gumbo and play country music but so do other states... I agree. And what's more...for some reason I have noticed that even local news crews will find the most, backwoods, idiotic person to interview for the news. Can you imagine what people who have traveled to Louisiana think if they turn on the TV in their hotel rooms and see this stuff on TV??!! Your darn skippy I do!!!! I've lived in Louisiana for over thirty years and I don't listen to that stuff, much. And being originally from California I know I don't talk like a hick, get a grip!!! Oh, GEAUX TIGERS!!!! god nose |
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