Description: How players and promoters from one Louisiana locale created unforgettable music
Brief description: Kip Lornell teaches at George Washington University. He is author of Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States; coauthor of The Beat! Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.; and coeditor of The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States and Shreveport Sounds in Black and White, all published by University Press of Mississippi.