A History of Folk Music in English Canada
by Gary Cristall
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Beginning in the Middle - Mariposa, 1961
The Invention of Folk Music
A Child Shall Lead Them
Canadian Beginnings
Gibbon and the Canadian Mosaic
Red Is The Colour- The Other Mosaic –1900’s-30’s
The Early Labour Song Tradition in Canada
Red Front to Popular Front
New Deal and No Deal
Birth of a Nation
Put Canada First!
People’s Songs and People’s Music
The Golden Age of Canadian Folk Song 1947- 1962- The Beginning
The Emergence of a Repertoire
The First Tour- The UJPO Folksingers
Foreign Affairs
World Music in the Golden Age
Founding Folkies
From Bonavista to the Vancouver Island
Sam Gesser and Folkways Canada
Country and Folk
The “Revival”- Folk as Pop
Mariposa Revisited- The End of the Beginning
The Boom - Early Canadian Folk Professionals and the Marketplace
The Songwriters
East is East and West is West- Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver & Smaller Towns and Smaller Scenes
Folk Rock
The Real Boom- Folk in the 70’s
The Festivals
The Message in the Music- Political and Social Images in Songwriting and Folk Music in Canada in the 60’s and 70’s
Bigger Than Ever- the 80’s
New World, New Music
The Little Folk- Children and Folk Music
Looking Forward – Looking Backward- Folk Music at the End of the Century and the Beginning of the New Millennium
What Does It Mean
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3. The Invention of Folk Music
The terms folklore and folk music were first used in the 19
th
century. Why, how, who, where and when these terms were developed is an important aspect of how the music was seen in the 20
th
century.
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