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Newfoundland Rhapsody : Frederick R. Emerson and the Musical Culture of the Island

1 Mar 2014

Frederick Rennie Emerson (1895-1972) was a dynamic presence in the cultural and intellectual life of Newfoundland and Labrador for much of the twentieth century. A musician, lawyer, educator, and folklore enthusiast, Emerson was a central figure in the preservation and mediation of Newfoundland culture in the tumultuous decades prior to and following Confederation with Canada in 1949. Glenn Colton shows how Emerson fostered greater awareness and understanding of Newfoundland's cultural heritage in local, national, and international contexts. His collaboration with song collector Maud Karpeles in the late 1920s preserved some of the most cherished folk songs in the English Language, and a decade later, his lectures at Memorial University College emphasized folk traditions and classical repertoire to inspire cultural discovery for an entire generation. As Newfoundland's representative on the first Canada Council and vice-president of the Canadian Folk Music Society, he played a crucial role in shaping Canadian cultural policy during the transformative years of the mid-twentieth century. Colton also reveals the meaningful creative works Emerson composed in response to the same cultural heritage he documented and preserved: his one-act drama Proud Kate Sullivan (1940) is a pioneering depiction of Newfoundland life, and the folk-inspired Newfoundland Rhapsody (1964) is one of few examples of symphonic music composed by a Newfoundlander of his generation. Newfoundland Rhapsody explores Newfoundland society, Canada's emerging arts scene, and the international folk music community to offer a new lens through which to view the cultural history of twentieth-century Newfoundland and Canada.
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Authors

Glenn David Colton

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-385), a discography (pages 385-389) and index Selected works of Frederick R. Emerson" (pages 239-242)
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Date published
2014.
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
780.92
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
n-cn-nf
ISBN
9780773589377 9780773542518
LCCN
ML429.E535
LCCN Item number
C72 2014eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (xv, 401 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
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CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00234332 (OCoLC)879870227 (CaOOCEL)447298
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Title proper/short title
Frederick R. Emerson and the musical culture of the island
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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