Fall university titles feature disappearing wetlands, a Cajun diary by Corinne Broussard and an analysis of jazz

UL Press

Over the past eight years, Tina Freeman has photographed the Louisiana wetlands and Arctic and Antarctic glaciers. Now those photos are paired together, addressing the fragile nature of both, in “Tina Freeman: Lamentations,” co-published by UL Press with the New Orleans Museum of Art.

The book is published in conjunction with an NOMA exhibition set to run from now until March 20, 2020. “Lamentations” demonstrates how the rising waters along the coast of Louisiana are both visually and physically connected to the melting glaciers at the poles, despite the separation of vast distances.

Corrine Broussard

The Acadian Museum of Erath acquired a diary and scrapbook assembled by Corinne Broussard depicting a 1930 visit to Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, by a Louisiana delegation led by then U.S. Sen. Dudley J. LeBlanc and consisting of 25 “Evangeline Girls” and 12 men, three of them priests. The visit honored the 175th anniversary of the Acadian Deportation. Authors Warren and Mary Perrin have turned the diary into a new book, “Seeking an Acadian Nation–The 1930 Diary of an Evangeline Girl.”

The book sold out of its first printing when the Perrins had book signings in Canada for the Congres Mondial Acadian, or Acadiana Congress. The second printing should be available now or very soon.

University Press of Mississippi

Laurent Cugny is a musician and professor of music and musicology at Sorbonne University and her “Analysis of Jazz: A Comprehensive Approach,” originally published in French as “Analyser le jazz,” is now available in English for the first time by the University Press of Mississippi. Cugny examines and connects the theoretical and methodological processes that underlie jazz. Divided into three parts, the book focuses on the work of jazz, analytical parameters, and analysis.

Louisiana Book News is written by award-winning author Chere Dastugue Coen, who writes Louisiana romances and mysteries under the pen name of Cherie Claire. Her first book in each series is FREE to download as an ebook, including "Emilie," book one of The Cajun Series, "Ticket to Paradise," book one of The Cajun Embassy series and "A Ghost of a Chance," the first Viola Valentine mystery.