Plains Chippewa / Metis music from Turtle Mountain.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vrooman, Nicholas Curchin
Language:French
Published: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, Mass. : Smithsonian/Folkways ; Distributed by Rounder, ℗1992.
Series:American song.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Pembina Chippewa Drum songs: Soldier's honor song ; New grass dance song ; Rock dance song ; Go homing song ; Love song ; Round dance ; Buffalo song ; Many eagles set sun dance song
  • Part II: French songs, from elders to children: Le matelot de Montr?al = The sailor from Montreal ; Chanson? boire = Drinking song ; Le garcon le moins heureux = The most unhappy fellow ; Napol?on Bonaparte ; Old Fred's White 99 ; Ad?line ; Chanson? boire = Bottle song ; Beau clari de la lune = In the beautiful moonlight ; Ants, mosquitoes, and snowball fraicass? ; Le jaloux = The jealous man ; Le chanson du bataille = Song of the battle
  • Part III: Fiddle Dance Music: Soldier's joy ; Red River jig ; Quebec reel ; Ragtime Annie, second change ; Woodchopper's breakdown ; Irish washer woman ; Red wing
  • Part IV: Contemporary fiddle, country music, rock and roll, and full-circle fiddle: Big John McNeil hornpipe ; Sir John Tupper's march ; Singing for a living ; One for the road ; Glitter and romance ; Space trip to nowhere ; Bush music.