“On A Mission”: Preserving Creole Culture One Tweet at a Time. Keith Frank, Zydeco, and the Use of Social Media

Appearing approximately sixty years ago among the Creole community of urban Houston, zydeco is a relatively new musical genre that is however still associated to rurality, folklore and old-fashioned ways. In this unfavorable context, it might seem difficult to link zydeco with modernity or high-prof...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f26858902a564d9e84cc0509e222db7f2021-12-02T10:15:19Z“On A Mission”: Preserving Creole Culture One Tweet at a Time. Keith Frank, Zydeco, and the Use of Social Media1765-276610.4000/transatlantica.7586https://doaj.org/article/f26858902a564d9e84cc0509e222db7f2016-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7586https://doaj.org/toc/1765-2766Appearing approximately sixty years ago among the Creole community of urban Houston, zydeco is a relatively new musical genre that is however still associated to rurality, folklore and old-fashioned ways. In this unfavorable context, it might seem difficult to link zydeco with modernity or high-profile communication tools and technologies, yet more and more young Creole musicians are bridging the gap by heavily using social media to promote their music as well as their south Louisiana cultural heritage.Marie DemarsAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesarticleZydecosocial mediaCreoles of coloridentitycultural preservationHistory AmericaE-FAmericaE11-143ENFRTransatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines, Vol 1 (2016)
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social media
Creoles of color
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cultural preservation
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social media
Creoles of color
identity
cultural preservation
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Marie Demars
“On A Mission”: Preserving Creole Culture One Tweet at a Time. Keith Frank, Zydeco, and the Use of Social Media
description Appearing approximately sixty years ago among the Creole community of urban Houston, zydeco is a relatively new musical genre that is however still associated to rurality, folklore and old-fashioned ways. In this unfavorable context, it might seem difficult to link zydeco with modernity or high-profile communication tools and technologies, yet more and more young Creole musicians are bridging the gap by heavily using social media to promote their music as well as their south Louisiana cultural heritage.
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title “On A Mission”: Preserving Creole Culture One Tweet at a Time. Keith Frank, Zydeco, and the Use of Social Media
title_short “On A Mission”: Preserving Creole Culture One Tweet at a Time. Keith Frank, Zydeco, and the Use of Social Media
title_full “On A Mission”: Preserving Creole Culture One Tweet at a Time. Keith Frank, Zydeco, and the Use of Social Media
title_fullStr “On A Mission”: Preserving Creole Culture One Tweet at a Time. Keith Frank, Zydeco, and the Use of Social Media
title_full_unstemmed “On A Mission”: Preserving Creole Culture One Tweet at a Time. Keith Frank, Zydeco, and the Use of Social Media
title_sort “on a mission”: preserving creole culture one tweet at a time. keith frank, zydeco, and the use of social media
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