Archive for May, 2009
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Milling Frolic at Johnstown. August 2008
Maxie MacNeil, Joe Peter MacLean (holding mic), Allan MacLeod
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
knowing, loving
I’ve sometimes been met with resistance when I offer analytical comments about favourite songs to fans of popular music. Some people will only discuss lyrics, not music, while others simply don’t like it when you try to explain songs in any intellectual way. To simply love it, or to intuitively understand it, is enough.
I’m of […]
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Ethnomusicology: Friendships in the Field
see it BIGGER
(Peter MacLean, right foreground, at the Johnstown Milling Frolic 2007)
While living on Cape Breton Island I would visit Peter, a Gaelic singer, a couple of times per week. He is a font of information on songs and stories, language and local history, but mainly he’s a wonderful person and great company. Outwardly the […]
