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Jun. 16th, 2006 03:29 pmI just thought of something.
When I first met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
infrogmation in New Orleans, I had him find me a Cajun restaurant. Apparently there are only two well-known ones in New Orleans, which isn't a Cajun city but rather a Creole one and that's totally different.
Another difference between New Orleans and Cajun country is the music. Specifically, Cajun music is a lot like country music but happier, and way more accordion. I don't mind it, and associate it with having great food with my parents at their favorite restaurant. New Orleans, by contrast, is better known for jazz, which is the opposite of country music. Everything I know about jazz I learned from NPR in the hour or so following Prairie Home Companion. My host, by contrast, is a trombone player, and very active and well-known among locals.
It just occurred to me, three years later, that taking a trombone player to a restaurant playing live accordion music might have been stretching my host's hospitality a bit far.
This realization was sparked by the sound of some ranchero music I heard from a car on the way to work today. Ranchero music is that morbid crooning Mexican music, influenced by mariachis who met up with the many accordion-carrying Germans who were drawn to Mexico in the early 20th century. Suddenly, the similarity between it and Cajun music jumped out at me. And now that the two genres are linked, I don't think I like Cajun music anymore.
When I first met
infrogmation in New Orleans, I had him find me a Cajun restaurant. Apparently there are only two well-known ones in New Orleans, which isn't a Cajun city but rather a Creole one and that's totally different.Another difference between New Orleans and Cajun country is the music. Specifically, Cajun music is a lot like country music but happier, and way more accordion. I don't mind it, and associate it with having great food with my parents at their favorite restaurant. New Orleans, by contrast, is better known for jazz, which is the opposite of country music. Everything I know about jazz I learned from NPR in the hour or so following Prairie Home Companion. My host, by contrast, is a trombone player, and very active and well-known among locals.
It just occurred to me, three years later, that taking a trombone player to a restaurant playing live accordion music might have been stretching my host's hospitality a bit far.
This realization was sparked by the sound of some ranchero music I heard from a car on the way to work today. Ranchero music is that morbid crooning Mexican music, influenced by mariachis who met up with the many accordion-carrying Germans who were drawn to Mexico in the early 20th century. Suddenly, the similarity between it and Cajun music jumped out at me. And now that the two genres are linked, I don't think I like Cajun music anymore.
