I'd like to try some cajun singing to accompany my playing on the C box. My problem is that I don't have any experience with speaking the Cajun lingo. It's one thing to have the lyrics to La Porte D'Arriere in front of you in Cajun French, it's another thing to try and get the darn prounciation right.
Without having to play the recorded song over and over again, listening while following the printed lyrics trying to get the pronounciation sounding right,I was wondering if anyone knew of any Cajun French songs in an English transliteration/phonetic form online or in a book? Maybe one of you all has done this already and could send me a copy or two of what they have? I'm looking for Cajun standards like Eunice Two Step, La Porte D'Arriere ( anything DL Menard), Johnny Peux Pas Danser, etc in English phonetic form.
Or is listening to the track over and over singing along the only way? THANKS!

Well, the most famous book of Cajun lyrics with
"English" phonetics is Ann Savoy's.

http://www.savoymusiccenter.com/cajun_books.html

Do you have a copy of it?

--BN

well BN, funny but it never occured to me to look at Savoy musics website! thanks

You might also want to check out the recent DVD by Kristi Guillory and Courtney Granger available at link 1. It is "Singing Cajun Vocals for Men and Women." It covers J'ai Ete Au Bal, Valse D'Eunice, Lacassine Special and Valse de Balfa. Each song is broken down line by line with lyrics on screen and played at full speed.

thanks Bruce.

'transliteration' actually means changing alphabets
like hebrew or russian, to roman/english

wle

Larry, wouldn't 'transliteration' also apply to changing Cajun French to English, like from 'c'est ca l'habille' to 'say sah labee'? or did I get the wrong word for this application...what word would work better instead of transliteration? thanks

that would be 'phonetic transcription'


sort of a tablature but for words.. :)

wle

Transliteration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Transliteration is a form of translation, and is the practice of converting a text from one script into another.

An English lesson?