Culture
The way of life of a group of people.
What is culture?
*northernmost region of Louisiana
*region's largest urban area is Shreveport-Bossier City
*activities including hunting and fishing
*culture resembles neighboring states rather than South Louisiana
What is Sportsmen's Paradise?
A group of people who are or who consider themselves to be different from other members of the community based on several factors.
What is an ethnic group?
Where Jazz music was created.
What is New Orleans?
Famous piano-pounding, rock and roll pioneer.
Who is Jerry Lee Lewis?
The art and science of designing and constructing buildings.
What is architecture?
*includes cities of Eunice, Lafayette, and Thibodaux
*Acadians were the first European settlers
*oil industry brought many jobs
What is Cajun Country?
When the Acadians settled into Louisiana.
What is the 1760s?
One thing that the Africans brought to Louisiana music.
What are songs, drumming, or dancing?
New Orleans-born musician who helped the genre of Jazz evolve.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
The blending of new customs with older ideas and practices to form entirely new cultural expressions.
What is cultural diffusion?
*stretches across center of state
*Alexandria and Pineville are largest urban areas
*home to Natchitoches, Louisiana's oldest city
What is the Crossroads Region?
How many groups of Native Americans are recognized as sovereign Indian nations.
What is 4?
Where the radio program "The Louisiana Hayride" was broadcast from.
What is Shreveport?
New Orleans-born musician famous for recording songs classified as both rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
Who is Antoine “Fats” Domino?
Scholars who study communities and help identify areas where similar pasts and patterns make a region distinct from its surroundings.
What are cultural anthropologists?
*most important economic activities are ports and tourism
*includes Jefferson Parish, the Northshore, and Metairie
What is the Greater New Orleans Region?
Who settled into the northern region of the state and raised cotton farms.
Who are the Anglos?
The famous celebration before Lent.
Twenty-year-old French Ursuline nun who served as a nurse in the hospital in New Orleans.
Who is Marie Madeleine Hachard?
A way of speaking.
What is dialect?
*home of Baton Rouge
*work is dominated by chemical companies
What is Plantation Country?
The people believed to be responsible for creating jambalaya.
Who are the Spanish?
A Cajun dance party.
What is a Fais-do-do?
Louisiana author who wrote the famous novel The Awakening.
Who is Kate Chopin?