Great movie. She is Beautiful. She trusted him. He took the bribe. Now he is a bad cop. Lost it all. Lost her respect. She stand tall- i love this film clip
Seems no one noticed that's Dewey Balfa, his brother, and the beautiful Christine Balfa, Dewey's daughter, playing with Quaid. Christine carries on the legacy of her dad with Balfa Toujour and Bonsoir Catin, 2 cajun bands
I noticed…. Dewey Balfa might have been the best known of all Cajun musicians. I think that brother’s name was Ralph, if I am not wrong. He had another brother who sang with him, who was killed in a car accident not many years before this, I believe. I thought that Christine was Ralph‘s daughter, rather than Dewey’s. And I thought the young man playing with them, not Dennis Quaid, the stocky and very young man, was also related somehow, Like Dewey’s nephew.
@@bmcclain1 Two brothers of Dewey Balfa died in a car accident. Will Balfa and Rodney Balfa, They were together the Balfa Brothers with Dewey and Will playing fiddle and Rodney played the guitar. The accordionist in the movie is Robert Jardell, but in the Balfa Brothers played lots of accordion players like Hadley Fontenot, Nathan Abshire, Ray Abshire, Allie Young and ..... Maybe the stocky young man is Tony Balfa.
I agree totally, I am born and live in Louisiana and this movie is a comedy of sorts. Dennis Quaid is not Cajun, but you can find the Cajun culture within 90 miles of NOLA. Creole is NOLA, Cajun is some of the country and much of La. is just typical South. Enjoy and come on down.
Lighten up people! Love this movie! One of my all time favorite "Cheesiest Movies" ever! (You have to love "bad" movies from the 1980's, like "They Live", in order to appreciate it.) But, MAKE NOTE! There is an actual plot!! The entire movie just draws you in: good plot, bad accents, 80's clothes and hairstyles, Zydeco dancing, etc! If you have never seen it, and love New Orleans, sit down on your couch, crack open a beer or two, and relax for an hour or so. (It actually has a surprise ending.) Just relax and enjoy yourself!
Agree. I do believe that Katrina washed away the soul of New Orleans. And the new mayor Cantrell is finishing it off. She actuall banned go cups in the Quarter because of Covid. You would think they would want go cups and no one inside but people have no common sense anymore. Hope you are doing well.
Absolutely. I grew up around French Settlement/Maurepas and I knew people who were -genuine- Cajuns, mostly the elderly folks. Cajun/French was actually their first language. New Orleans is far from Cajun...
I have no idea why Zachary Richard wasn’t asked to be in this movie, pas bon, pas bon, pas bon. One of the most prolific Cajun writers and singers we have and he still lives in Louisiana.
Before my children arrived I was way off-grid. I had to mail-order my copy of "Wind" (1992), although I'd seen "Waterworld" in the theatre. Oh! Fille! Si j'avais su que tu étais là, je n'aurais jamais conduit vers le nord jusqu'à Bentonville. S'il te plaît. Femme.
i recognise that first tune from my teen in the 80s when swallow records were all re-issued in UK by Ace records! (compilations known as "louisiana cajun special vo1, and vol 2)
Je découvre un peu par hasard les cajuns de Louisiane sur cette vidéo. J'ai un peu appris à l'école primaire il y a 60 ans déjà épopée fantastique des cajuns, ces français qui se sont rendus en Louisiane. Malheureusement aujourd'hui l'histoire des cajuns n'est plus guère enseigné en France. Aussi je découvre la langue cajun qui est le vieux français parlé du temps du roi Louis XIV et qui se perpétue en Louisiane. Mais ne vous en faites pas en tant que français on vous comprend quand même avec maintenant l'accent américain en.olus, ce qui fait tout son charme. J'ai un fils de mon arrière grand père qui est parti en Louisiane vers 1856, à Saint Louis précisément et y est décédé à l'âge de 46 ans d'une dissenterie. Il a eu un fils, Joseph, sans doute décédé depuis. Mais je n'ai pas d'informations sur sa descendance qui sans doute ne permet plus le français.
T B , I lived in Breaux Bridge in the early 80’s , my Dad is from St. Martinville , I would fish the Bayou at the bottom of the street ( Hardy Street ) , had some good times .
0:54 - It took me until that moment, on about the 9th viewing of this movie, to fully realize just how beautiful Ellen Barkin was . . . (Sue me: I was a kid.)
Cajun country is west, and southwest of New Orleans. If you’re looking for Cajun dancing, that’s more in Lafayette than New Orleans. The real, authentic Cajun music, though will be found in the small towns in the Atchafalaya basin. New Orleans is Creole. Southwest Louisiana is Cajun. Cajun is country Creole is urban.
Yes this movie is silly if you are from NOLA. We have more of a New England, New Jersey accent than Cajun. Actually there are many different accents in and around the city, but the Cajun accent is from the west towards Lafayette. We refer to the city as the Cresent City, never heard Big Easy until this movie. The scene is in Bucktown, which was at the mouth of the 17th St Canal that busted during Katrina. Starting at 51 seconds you see the West End clubs and restaurantswith Augies Delago
Take this show west to within 20 miles of the Texas Border...right up I-10, to Crowley and Welsh, La. That's my family and where CAJUN was born. God Bless my Great ×20 uncle, Joseph Broussard. He fought for everyone. Not like today....He'd be sad at the sight of RACISM.
Absolutely! My great great great grandparents went the rout through Canada and down to Louisiana in the early 1700s! There are a lot of Cajuns throughout Louisiana and most no nothing about their Cajuns roots or how to even speak the language! Cajun traditions are slowly becoming a thing of the past and it's pretty sad! My family is a perfect example. My family moved into the city and their accents disappeared and my parents didn't even learn how to speak the language from their parents! Now most of us are still hunters and fishermen but we don't live in the bayou's of Louisiana! And the food is to die for!!! Nobody cooks like Cajuns!!!
Yes, i am aware of that, and appreciate your viewing. This is a clip from The Big Easy, referring to it,. the movie is great and lets enjoy it, especially the beautiful Ellen Barkin.I am in New Orleans freqently.
My comment must be on approval. My keyboard don’t speak Louisiana acajien langue. So I made some mistakes ma cher. I also meant I am acajien, but zacahary is a real hommes acadjien like his gran gran pere. Le bon Djeiu knows what I meant. Merci beaucoup ma Cher.
true. the styles influenced by it in new orleans tend to be lazy formula shit trying to tidy it up (like all those god awful jambalya zydeco tunes and toot toot! yeugh!)
My exact thoughts when I saw this title 😂 I'm a Cajun from SW Louisiana & I love New Orleans but Cajun Country is a good ways from there. Acadiana it where Cajun is.
@RighteousWilly, my family is Old French (white Creole) and Cajun on my mother's father's side. I think it's true, what your friend told you, but it's a lot more complicated today then it was back then.
Louisiana Creole people are those who are descended from the colonial settlers in Louisiana, especially those of French, Spanish, and African descent. The term was first used during colonial times by the early French settlers to distinguish between those locally born American Slaves of at least partial African descent,slave and free and those born in Africa when they were listed on slave inventories. It was a term used for "native-born".[3][4] The most precise current definition of a creole is a person of non- American ancestry, whether African or European, who was born in the Americas. Louisiana Creoles have common European heritage and share cultural ties, such as the traditional use of the French language and the continuing practice of Catholicism.[3] Some Creole people have African and sometimes Native American ancestry.[5] Later immigrants to New Orleans, such as Irish, Germans and Italians, also married into the Creole groups, though most remain of French ancestry. Most modern Creoles have family ties to Louisiana, particularly New Orleans. They are mostly Catholic in religion. Through the 19th century, most spoke French and were strongly connected to French colonial culture. They have had a major impact on the state's culture, hence the reason Louisiana is known as the Creole State [6] While the sophisticated Creole society of New Orleans has historically received much attention, the Cane River area developed its own strong mixed-race Creole culture, as did Frilot Cove, the Rideau Settlement, Bois Mallet, Grand Marais, and other enclaves in south Louisiana. These Creole enclaves have had a long history of cultural independence.
Louisiana French (LF) is the regional variety of the French language spoken throughout contemporary Louisiana by individuals who today identify ethno-racially as Creole, Cajun or French, as well as some who identify as African-American,white, Irish, or other origins. Individuals and groups of individuals through innovation, adaptation and contact, continually enrich the French language spoken in Louisiana, seasoning it with linguistic features that can sometimes only be found in Louisiana.[13][14][15][16][17] Tulane University's Department of French and Italian's website prominently declares "In Louisiana, French is not a foreign language".[18] Figures from U.S. decennial censuses report that roughly 250,000 Louisianans claimed to use or speak French in their homes.[19] Louisiana Creole (Kréyol La Lwizyàn) is a French Creole [20]language spoken by the Louisiana Creole people and sometimes Cajuns and whites of the state of Louisiana. The language consists of elements of French, Spanish, African, and Native American roots. Among the eighteen governors of Louisiana between 1803-1865, six were French Creoles and spoke French: Jacques Villeré, Pierre Derbigny, Armand Beauvais, Jacques Dupré, Andre B. Roman, and Alexandre Mouton. According to the historian Paul Lachance, "the addition of white immigrants to the white creole population enabled French-speakers to remain a majority of the white population [in New Orleans] until almost 1830. If a substantial proportion of free persons of color and slaves had not also spoken French, however, the Gallic community would have become a minority of the total population as early as 1820."[21] In the 1850s, white Francophones remained an intact and vibrant community; they maintained instruction in French in two of the city's four school districts.[22] In 1862, the Union general Ben Butler abolished French instruction in New Orleans schools, and statewide measures in 1864 and 1868 further cemented the policy.[22] By the end of the 19th century, French usage in the city had faded significantly.[23] However, as late as 1902 "one-fourth of the population of the city spoke French in ordinary daily intercourse, while another two-fourths was able to understand the language perfectly,"[24] and as late as 1945, one still encountered elderly Creole women who spoke no English.[25] The last major French-language newspaper in New Orleans, L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans, ceased publication on December 27, 1923, after ninety-six years;[26] according to some sources Le Courrier de la Nouvelle Orleans continued until 1955.[27] Today, it is generally in more rural areas that people continue to speak Louisiana French or Louisiana Creole. Also during the '40s and '50s many Creoles left Louisiana to find work in Texas, mostly in Houston and East Texas. The language and music is widely spoken there; the 5th ward of Houston was originally called Frenchtown due to the reason mentioned above. There were also Zydeco clubs started in Houston,like the famed Silver Slipper owned by a Creole named Alfred Cormier that has hosted the likes of Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavais.
No.. Cajuns are the French who settled in central Louisiana around Lafayette, Lake Charles the swamp area.. not New Orleans. Creole are from the freed slaves in the French Quarters..
New Orleans is not a Cajun City and not a part of Cajun Country... They are two different histories... and two different populations... and two different cultures. It's still a thumbs up anyway.
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The Big Easy. One of my all time favorites. I love New Orleans. Will be there in June, as I have in the past. Ellen Barkin, one of my favorite ladies.
This is a favorite of mine as well. Great movie. I have relocated to South West Louisiana and just love the people and the music!
Own this movie and watch it often. The music is the best, the story really good. Ellen.....? Amazing!
Great movie. She is Beautiful. She trusted him. He took the bribe. Now he is a bad cop. Lost it all. Lost her respect. She stand tall- i love this film clip
Seems no one noticed that's Dewey Balfa, his brother, and the beautiful Christine Balfa, Dewey's daughter, playing with Quaid. Christine carries on the legacy of her dad with Balfa Toujour and Bonsoir Catin, 2 cajun bands
Is she the one with a red long sleeve shirt?
@@davanmani556 Yes
I noticed…. Dewey Balfa might have been the best known of all Cajun musicians. I think that brother’s name was Ralph, if I am not wrong. He had another brother who sang with him, who was killed in a car accident not many years before this, I believe. I thought that Christine was Ralph‘s daughter, rather than Dewey’s. And I thought the young man playing with them, not Dennis Quaid, the stocky and very young man, was also related somehow, Like Dewey’s nephew.
@@bmcclain1 Two brothers of Dewey Balfa died in a car accident. Will Balfa and Rodney Balfa, They were together the Balfa Brothers with Dewey and Will playing fiddle and Rodney played the guitar. The accordionist in the movie is Robert Jardell, but in the Balfa Brothers played lots of accordion players like Hadley Fontenot, Nathan Abshire, Ray Abshire, Allie Young and ..... Maybe the stocky young man is Tony Balfa.
I just did - wearing glasses. I want to see that Les Blank film " J’ai Ete au Bal (I Went to the Dance)".
No movie can illustrate the Cajun culture, for it is as rich and as complicated as all cultures. That is what makes it special...
I love happy people.....what could be a more wonderful expression of that happiness than Cajun Dancing....
Watch Belizaire the Cajun . It was filmed in the heart of Cajun country .
But I really enjoyed this video and movie. What a cutie Dennis Quaid is. ;)
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this movie!
I agree totally, I am born and live in Louisiana and this movie is a comedy of sorts. Dennis Quaid is not Cajun, but you can find the Cajun culture within 90 miles of NOLA. Creole is NOLA, Cajun is some of the country and much of La. is just typical South. Enjoy and come on down.
Ellen Barkin never looked better than in this movie!
Lighten up people! Love this movie! One of my all time favorite "Cheesiest Movies" ever! (You have to love "bad" movies from the 1980's, like "They Live", in order to appreciate it.) But, MAKE NOTE! There is an actual plot!! The entire movie just draws you in: good plot, bad accents, 80's clothes and hairstyles, Zydeco dancing, etc! If you have never seen it, and love New Orleans, sit down on your couch, crack open a beer or two, and relax for an hour or so. (It actually has a surprise ending.) Just relax and enjoy yourself!
People bitch about this movie?
@@davidgerald133 It’s 2022 people whine about everything these days.
Love it...first a swing, then a waltz...
Visited the "Big Easy" again last Sept.. Can't get enough of it.......
Love this music! If I could, I'd move to
Baton Rouge!
Congratulations on your move to Louisiana. Life is good. Enjoy.
Martin D41 Sunburst guitar he is playing is a rare and expensive guitar. Niiiiiice! Especially in the mid 80's.
I have this DVD and love the movie and background. Ellen Barkin is a Babe. Many times there, my favorite destination.
it seems like everyone in Louisiana can sing or play music, amazing place, food is amazing , I live in Houston, so it's not too far to go
They know how to have a real good time.
Dennis Quaid is from Houston.
@@davanmani556 so is Randy his brother
I was madly in love with Dennis when this movie came out.
Sharon H I think he is a super actor.
Damn i miss South Louisiana & New Orleans...not the same after the storm.
Agree. I do believe that Katrina washed away the soul of New Orleans. And the new mayor Cantrell is finishing it off. She actuall banned go cups in the Quarter because of Covid. You would think they would want go cups and no one inside but people have no common sense anymore.
Hope you are doing well.
...now you don’t call me anymore...awesome!
Absolutely. I grew up around French Settlement/Maurepas and I knew people who were -genuine- Cajuns, mostly the elderly folks. Cajun/French was actually their first language. New Orleans is far from Cajun...
Also, when I went to New Orleans, some friends took us to this house, It was abandoned but recognizled.
I so remember this movie , wow I'm getting old . 🇺🇸😘✌️
I have no idea why Zachary Richard wasn’t asked to be in this movie, pas bon, pas bon, pas bon. One of the most prolific Cajun writers and singers we have and he still lives in Louisiana.
my child's dont argue about it, cajun it's in the soul of the beholder,be u,him,her ,them or us..love u all...
Thank You. from France.
Before my children arrived I was way off-grid. I had to mail-order my copy of "Wind" (1992), although I'd seen "Waterworld" in the theatre. Oh! Fille! Si j'avais su que tu étais là, je n'aurais jamais conduit vers le nord jusqu'à Bentonville. S'il te plaît. Femme.
i recognise that first tune from my teen in the 80s when swallow records were all re-issued in UK by Ace records! (compilations known as "louisiana cajun special vo1, and vol 2)
great film, should have made a sequel--Cajun folks like to eat and party--food is really good
Michael Smith So where do people not want to eat good food and party? Besides the Midwest?
+Michael Benge given all the bad restaurants I've seen that's a great question
Je découvre un peu par hasard les cajuns de Louisiane sur cette vidéo. J'ai un peu appris à l'école primaire il y a 60 ans déjà épopée fantastique des cajuns, ces français qui se sont rendus en Louisiane. Malheureusement aujourd'hui l'histoire des cajuns n'est plus guère enseigné en France. Aussi je découvre la langue cajun qui est le vieux français parlé du temps du roi Louis XIV et qui se perpétue en Louisiane. Mais ne vous en faites pas en tant que français on vous comprend quand même avec maintenant l'accent américain en.olus, ce qui fait tout son charme. J'ai un fils de mon arrière grand père qui est parti en Louisiane vers 1856, à Saint Louis précisément et y est décédé à l'âge de 46 ans d'une dissenterie. Il a eu un fils, Joseph, sans doute décédé depuis. Mais je n'ai pas d'informations sur sa descendance qui sans doute ne permet plus le français.
I don't care what a man had done if he could dance a decent waltz I'd dance with him for two or three hours. LOL
This scene was filmed out near Breaux Bridge, that's Bayou Teche in the background
T B , I lived in Breaux Bridge in the early 80’s , my Dad is from St. Martinville , I would fish the Bayou at the bottom of the street ( Hardy Street ) , had some good
times .
No it wasn't! That was filmed at the west end New Orleans lake front.
loved that movie!
Ya..love this movie..wonder if Dennis Quaid was really singing...sounds like him....
The Big Easy! Dennys Quaid, Ellen Barkin. Good movie.
My boys mothers family was from the Appolosa area. PRETTY GIRL, damn pretty blue eyed girl. I really loved her.
Oh my golly gosh ness, my favourite dance scene
0:54 - It took me until that moment, on about the 9th viewing of this movie, to fully realize just how beautiful Ellen Barkin was . . .
(Sue me: I was a kid.)
And DAMNED sexy!!! I always liked her kind of crooked grin out the one side of her sexy lips!
attractive young ellen
She didn’t need makeup to look beautiful. I have this movie on DVD and watch it every few months. Great movie!
I saw Marilyn Monroe when I was a kid and what came to my mind was what beautiful woman she was.
Cajun country is west, and southwest of New Orleans. If you’re looking for Cajun dancing, that’s more in Lafayette than New Orleans. The real, authentic Cajun music, though will be found in the small towns in the Atchafalaya basin. New Orleans is Creole. Southwest Louisiana is Cajun. Cajun is country Creole is urban.
I have the soundtrack from that film, best ever.
Since the first time I watched this movie I am looking for the Soundtrack, never found it here in Germany :-(
Hey, this is from BIG EASY, and it is still a HOT MOVIE.
moccasinlanding xxx
hello !!
j'aime beaucoup ce film !! j'apprécie l'histoire et les acteurs ( et actrices !). Et vive les Cajuns !
I am aware of that. Have it and watched many times, one of my favorite destinations.
That's a YOUNG Dennis Quaid! Wow... I think I need to see this movie.
Yes this movie is silly if you are from NOLA. We have more of a New England, New Jersey accent than Cajun. Actually there are many different accents in and around the city, but the Cajun accent is from the west towards Lafayette. We refer to the city as the Cresent City, never heard Big Easy until this movie. The scene is in Bucktown, which was at the mouth of the 17th St Canal that busted during Katrina. Starting at 51 seconds you see the West End clubs and restaurantswith Augies Delago
Take this show west to within 20 miles of the Texas Border...right up I-10, to Crowley and Welsh, La.
That's my family and where CAJUN was born. God Bless my Great ×20 uncle, Joseph Broussard.
He fought for everyone. Not like today....He'd be sad at the sight of RACISM.
Brought to you in the best potato cam sound technology.
Baby, your luck is about to change!
Love this film
they should have made sequel to this film
Thought that background looked familiar...anyone remember Augie's de Lago (before Katrina blew it away?)
Giuro, mi sono messo a ballare da solo: ritmo irrefrenabile....
Favolosi........
J’aimerais voyager en Louisiane un jour. Vive les cajun!
Did not want to see a movie clip !!!
those are real shorts from Lafayatte Wal-Mart
Cajuns : French Culture and French Roots...
Absolutely! My great great great grandparents went the rout through Canada and down to Louisiana in the early 1700s! There are a lot of Cajuns throughout Louisiana and most no nothing about their Cajuns roots or how to even speak the language! Cajun traditions are slowly becoming a thing of the past and it's pretty sad! My family is a perfect example. My family moved into the city and their accents disappeared and my parents didn't even learn how to speak the language from their parents! Now most of us are still hunters and fishermen but we don't live in the bayou's of Louisiana! And the food is to die for!!! Nobody cooks like Cajuns!!!
@@williamoleschoolarendt7016 i recelty learned of my Cajun roots and i def plan on learning the language and the culture
..Also Cajuns are from southwest louisiana , NOT over commercialized New Orleans.
Cajuns came from Canada, They were kicked out of Canada. We like them much more than our french Canadian's, that's for sure.
Yes, i am aware of that, and appreciate your viewing. This is a clip from The Big Easy, referring to it,. the movie is great and lets enjoy it, especially the beautiful Ellen Barkin.I am in New Orleans freqently.
Makes me "hawngri fuh some balled crawfish"!
A Great song from a really good movie!!
I love Cajuns great people
my favorite movie: a love story: "Big Easy" , Christine Balfa sings !
a fav of mine also
If we all live with the attitude that occasion to enjoy life everyday we all be better off
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Ellen Barkin was indeed a beautiful woman
Dewey Balfa = Legend!
Loving this
laissez le bon temps rouler
Love it.
This is taken from the movie "The Big Easy" (1986)
Thank you for your nice comment and rating . I see you have the music favorites, that I like also.
My comment must be on approval. My keyboard don’t speak Louisiana acajien langue. So I made some mistakes ma cher. I also meant I am acajien, but zacahary is a real hommes acadjien like his gran gran pere. Le bon Djeiu knows what I meant. Merci beaucoup ma Cher.
Wellcome in my and xours House off rising Sun, Luke Gangsterbanker.
Cajun ..... acadian of Louisiana
There is no such thing as 'New Orleans' Cajun dancing. First of all, 'Cajun' country ends where New Orleans starts. Any true Louisianian knows this.
Pete Mangum Creole
Well-almost , but you got Algiers and the projects and others that are in between!!
Pete Mangum I was just coming to the comments to write this exact thing lol 😂
true.
the styles influenced by it in new orleans tend to be lazy formula shit trying to tidy it up (like all those god awful jambalya zydeco tunes and toot toot! yeugh!)
My exact thoughts when I saw this title 😂
I'm a Cajun from SW Louisiana & I love New Orleans but Cajun Country is a good ways from there. Acadiana it where Cajun is.
What a bunch of whingers we have in some of the previous comments, it was a good movie with good music, just enjoy it.
Remember that little dwelling well. Katrina took it away.
haltmusic very sad.
I love this!
I forgot the name of that movie= please help to remember,
She's the same girl from the movie Pink Floyd The Wall I recognize that gorgeous face anywhere
It's spelled Cher but pronounced like "Sha" not Cher (share) like the pop singers name. I hate how Hollywood can never get it right.
willem mccormick I hate how they think New Orleans is Cajun. It’s not. New Orleans culture is Creole.
I’m from Louisiana
It might have helped if someone had shown Dennis Quaid how to waltz. It was still a good movie though.
@RighteousWilly, my family is Old French (white Creole) and Cajun on my mother's father's side. I think it's true, what your friend told you, but it's a lot more complicated today then it was back then.
Nobody talks like that in New Orleans. New Orleans has a Creole culture, not a Cajun culture. Both have French roots but quite different.
wich one practice the voodoo?
@@Gustavo-nl5yk Creole. Cajuns practice traditional Catholicism. Creoles have their roots in Haiti.
J'aime beaucoup
Swell music and cooking, I guarantee.
I'm Cajun proud
Cajuns dont live in N.O. lol
they work there
Hell, nowadays Cajuns live everywhere, and pep up those places.
Bordel, ça c'est de la bonne musique .Mais j'aime votre vieux Français comme : Allons danser
Pickin' and grinin" with a mic???!!! Dimestore Nwalns style!!
Louisiana Creole people are those who are descended from the colonial settlers in Louisiana, especially those of French, Spanish, and African descent. The term was first used during colonial times by the early French settlers to distinguish between those locally born American Slaves of at least partial African descent,slave and free and those born in Africa when they were listed on slave inventories.
It was a term used for "native-born".[3][4] The most precise current definition of a creole is a person of non- American ancestry, whether African or European, who was born in the Americas.
Louisiana Creoles have common European heritage and share cultural ties, such as the traditional use of the French language and the continuing practice of Catholicism.[3] Some Creole people have African and sometimes Native American ancestry.[5]
Later immigrants to New Orleans, such as Irish, Germans and Italians, also married into the Creole groups, though most remain of French ancestry. Most modern Creoles have family ties to Louisiana, particularly New Orleans. They are mostly Catholic in religion. Through the 19th century, most spoke French and were strongly connected to French colonial culture. They have had a major impact on the state's culture, hence the reason Louisiana is known as the Creole State [6]
While the sophisticated Creole society of New Orleans has historically received much attention, the Cane River area developed its own strong mixed-race Creole culture, as did Frilot Cove, the Rideau Settlement, Bois Mallet, Grand Marais, and other enclaves in south Louisiana. These Creole enclaves have had a long history of cultural independence.
Louisiana French (LF) is the regional variety of the French language spoken throughout contemporary Louisiana by individuals who today identify ethno-racially as Creole, Cajun or French, as well as some who identify as African-American,white, Irish, or other origins. Individuals and groups of individuals through innovation, adaptation and contact, continually enrich the French language spoken in Louisiana, seasoning it with linguistic features that can sometimes only be found in Louisiana.[13][14][15][16][17]
Tulane University's Department of French and Italian's website prominently declares "In Louisiana, French is not a foreign language".[18] Figures from U.S. decennial censuses report that roughly 250,000 Louisianans claimed to use or speak French in their homes.[19]
Louisiana Creole (Kréyol La Lwizyàn) is a French Creole [20]language spoken by the Louisiana Creole people and sometimes Cajuns and whites of the state of Louisiana. The language consists of elements of French, Spanish, African, and Native American roots.
Among the eighteen governors of Louisiana between 1803-1865, six were French Creoles and spoke French: Jacques Villeré, Pierre Derbigny, Armand Beauvais, Jacques Dupré, Andre B. Roman, and Alexandre Mouton.
According to the historian Paul Lachance, "the addition of white immigrants to the white creole population enabled French-speakers to remain a majority of the white population [in New Orleans] until almost 1830. If a substantial proportion of free persons of color and slaves had not also spoken French, however, the Gallic community would have become a minority of the total population as early as 1820."[21] In the 1850s, white Francophones remained an intact and vibrant community; they maintained instruction in French in two of the city's four school districts.[22] In 1862, the Union general Ben Butler abolished French instruction in New Orleans schools, and statewide measures in 1864 and 1868 further cemented the policy.[22] By the end of the 19th century, French usage in the city had faded significantly.[23] However, as late as 1902 "one-fourth of the population of the city spoke French in ordinary daily intercourse, while another two-fourths was able to understand the language perfectly,"[24] and as late as 1945, one still encountered elderly Creole women who spoke no English.[25] The last major French-language newspaper in New Orleans, L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans, ceased publication on December 27, 1923, after ninety-six years;[26] according to some sources Le Courrier de la Nouvelle Orleans continued until 1955.[27]
Today, it is generally in more rural areas that people continue to speak Louisiana French or Louisiana Creole. Also during the '40s and '50s many Creoles left Louisiana to find work in Texas, mostly in Houston and East Texas. The language and music is widely spoken there; the 5th ward of Houston was originally called Frenchtown due to the reason mentioned above. There were also Zydeco clubs started in Houston,like the famed Silver Slipper owned by a Creole named Alfred Cormier that has hosted the likes of Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavais.
No.. Cajuns are the French who settled in central Louisiana around Lafayette, Lake Charles the swamp area.. not New Orleans. Creole are from the freed slaves in the French Quarters..
Michael Matthews the Language was not Creole.. it was cajun french.. Cajuns had their own music and culture different from creole..
Just curious.one of New Orleans most colorful figures was Jean Lafitte. Was he Creole, or Cajun?
neither
New Orleans is not a Cajun City and not a part of Cajun Country... They are two different histories... and two different populations... and two different cultures. It's still a thumbs up anyway.
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