I wouldn't get carried away with making connections between place names
and any specific musical style, he it baroque or blues. Just because
Virginia is named after the Virgin Queen, doesn't give it an edge on
things Elizabethan.
La Salle was honoring his king by calling the place "Louisiana," and
names associated with the "Sun King" don't end there. New Orleans was
named after the son of Louis XIV's brother, the Duke of Orleans. They
were members of the House of Bourbon, without which Bourbon Street
would be called something else. Lake Pontchartrain was named for the
Comte de Pontchartrain, successor to Louis' great finance minister
Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
Peter Danner
In a message dated 2/17/10 1:29:21 PM, [email protected] writes:
And for ex. the name "Louisina" was given to an area of land by the
French
explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, who named a region "Louisiana"
to
honor France's King Louis XIV in 1682. And that king happened to be
be also
the king of those musicians who were on the top of "inegalitee"...
;-)
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