Made in Louisiana
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About the Author
Born in 1940, Marc Savoy grew up in a rural French-speaking community outside of Eunice, Louisiana, and started playing the accordion at age twelve. By age twenty, he was building and selling his own Acadian-brand Cajun accordions. In 1966, he opened the doors to the iconic Savoy Music Center in his hometown. Today, he is revered as one of the finest builders and players of the instrument in the world.
About the Editor
Devon Lord (Editor-in-Chief) holds an MA from Georgetown University and a BA from the University of Texas, both in History. Previously, she worked for Gibbs Smith Publisher in Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as the State Department and Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
About the Publisher
Dr. Joshua Caffery (Director/Publisher) joined UL Press and the Center for Louisiana Studies in the summer of 2018. He is an author and musician who holds a PhD in English and Folklore from the University of Louisiana.
About UL Press
UL Press began publishing in the late 1960s, before the formal establishment of the Center for Louisiana Studies. Under the imprint "USL History Series," a consortium of young professors from various departments within the College of Liberal Arts edited, prepared, and published on different aspects of Louisiana's political and cultural history. Once the Center for Louisiana Studies formed in 1973, the titles were consolidated under its purview and expanded to include publications drawn from research in the Center's Colonial Records Project, proceedings from historical associations and conferences, and works translated by Center staff.
The publications of the 1980s expanded the Center's research scope to include early colonial Louisiana history and settlement patterns, literary commentary, folklore, and a new series, the Louisiana Life Series. The 1990s gave rise to the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, a nineteen-volume collection of scholarship on the state's history, as well as French and bilingual publications. In the early twenty-first century, it began drawing on a more diverse pool of authors and researchers, and in 2009 its imprint was changed to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press.
To date, the UL Press has produced over 300 titles in its 40+ years. The Press publishes works pertaining to all facets of Louisiana’s history, culture, art, society, politics, economics, religion, ethnicities, and environment. It also welcomes high quality works of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Learn more about all the UL Press titles at http://ulpress.org.
