Lynn Whidden
I am an ethnomusicologist with many questions about music in environment and my quest for answers has taken me from Canada to Europe to Asia, South America and back to Canada’s Arctic. It has also led me to the biology of sound, song and music, to indoors acoustic settings for music and more recently to the problems of investigating and recording the outdoor sound environment.
My Master of Music, unpublished, is a collection of old central Arctic Inuit song and the doctorate has resulted in a book, “Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music”. For decades I have taught and learned from, Indigenous students across northern Manitoba. In 2017 I received the Distinguished Alumni Award for Career Achievement at Brandon University.
Co-author, Paul Shore and I completed the book “Environment Matters. Why Song Sounds the Way It Does” published by Peter Lang 2018. I have now begun a long awaited look at the beautiful French folksongs that continue on almost unchanged in Canada, as sung by the Metis and other French-speakers. The songs come from across Europe: many are from seventeenth century (and earlier) Normandy; some come from France’s colonial efforts; others from Parisian dance halls.
All of my research is fed by my love of doing music and engaging in music with students, friends and family. On with the show!
Contact details:
[email protected]
website:
soundsongmusic.com
My Master of Music, unpublished, is a collection of old central Arctic Inuit song and the doctorate has resulted in a book, “Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music”. For decades I have taught and learned from, Indigenous students across northern Manitoba. In 2017 I received the Distinguished Alumni Award for Career Achievement at Brandon University.
Co-author, Paul Shore and I completed the book “Environment Matters. Why Song Sounds the Way It Does” published by Peter Lang 2018. I have now begun a long awaited look at the beautiful French folksongs that continue on almost unchanged in Canada, as sung by the Metis and other French-speakers. The songs come from across Europe: many are from seventeenth century (and earlier) Normandy; some come from France’s colonial efforts; others from Parisian dance halls.
All of my research is fed by my love of doing music and engaging in music with students, friends and family. On with the show!
Contact details:
[email protected]
website:
soundsongmusic.com
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