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  1. What Is This Book About?
  2. Beginning in the Middle - Mariposa, 1961
  3. The Invention of Folk Music
  4. A Child Shall Lead Them
  5. Canadian Beginnings
  6. Gibbon and the Canadian Mosaic
  7. Red Is The Colour- The Other Mosaic –1900’s-30’s
  8. The Early Labour Song Tradition in Canada
  9. Red Front to Popular Front
  10. New Deal and No Deal
  11. Birth of a Nation
  12. Put Canada First!
  13. People’s Songs and People’s Music
  14. The Golden Age of Canadian Folk Song 1947- 1962- The Beginning
  15. The Emergence of a Repertoire
  16. The First Tour- The UJPO Folksingers
  17. Foreign Affairs
  18. World Music in the Golden Age
  19. Founding Folkies
  20. From Bonavista to the Vancouver Island
  21. Sam Gesser and Folkways Canada
  22. Country and Folk
  23. The “Revival”- Folk as Pop
  24. Mariposa Revisited- The End of the Beginning
  25. The Boom - Early Canadian Folk Professionals and the Marketplace
  26. The Songwriters
  27. East is East and West is West- Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver & Smaller Towns and Smaller Scenes
  28. Folk Rock
  29. The Real Boom- Folk in the 70’s
  30. The Festivals
  31. The Message in the Music- Political and Social Images in Songwriting and Folk Music in Canada in the 60’s and 70’s
  32. Bigger Than Ever- the 80’s
  33. New World, New Music
  34. The Little Folk- Children and Folk Music
  35. Looking Forward – Looking Backward- Folk Music at the End of the Century and the Beginning of the New Millennium
  36. What Does It Mean
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6. Gibbon and the Canadian Mosaic
John Murray Gibbon invented the term Canadian Mosaic, produced the first folk festivals, and had a large impact on the creation of Canadian identity. He did it for love, and as a senior executive for the Canadian Pacific Railway. The use of folk music as a device for assimilation, the 1920’s festivals, Gibbon’s concept of folk music and the Canadian Mosaic.
A program from the 1928 festival organized by Gibbon in Winnipeg.
A concert program from the 1928 Winnipeg festival.
Cover of the program from the 6th Annual Folk Festival with Arts and Crafts Exhibition held in Vancouver from Oct 5 to 8, 1938
Program from the 1st British Columbia Ukrainian Canadian Festival 1946
Cover of the book, An Introduction to the Ukrainian-Canadian Immigrant Folksong Cycle, by Robert B. Klymasz, (Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1970)
Cover of the book, Canadian Mosaic: The Making of a Northern Nation, by John Murray Gibbon, (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1938)
Photo of the Ukrainian Male Chorus from Winnipeg, as printed on the back of their album, Ukrainian Male Chorus Sings Folk Songs.
Album cover for the record, Ukrainian Male Chorus Sings Folk Songs.
Music and Lyrics to Les Raftsmen, English version of which was written by John Murray Gibbon, as printed in the program for the Canadian Folk Song and Handicrafts Festival organized by Gibbon at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, May 20-22, 1927, page 14
Cover of the program from the Canadian Folk Song and Handicrafts Festival organized by John Murray Gibbon at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, May 20-22, 1927
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