Book Launch of Fourteen Fleeting Weeks: Maud Karpeles and Newfoundland Folk Song
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Join authors Anna Kearney Guigné and Glenn David Colton in celebrating the launch of Fourteen Fleeting Weeks: Maud Karpeles and Newfoundland Folk Song.
Featuring folksongs from the Karpeles collection performed by Ellen Power, readings and discussion from the authors, a cash bar, a book sale, and time to mingle over snacks and refreshments.
🗓️ Thursday, November 26 at 7:00 PM
📍 ELKS Club (19 Carpasian Road)
All are welcome to attend & admission is free!
The Book:
Between 1929 and 1930, Maud Karpeles, one of the leading figures in the English folk song and dance revival, undertook two song-collecting expeditions to Newfoundland. Across forty-six communities in eight regions of the Island, she notated 197 songs from approximately 115 singers. Fourteen Fleeting Weeks tells that story through annotated diaries, photographs, and thirty-six previously unpublished songs, and highlights the impact of Karpeles’s work on Newfoundland’s musical heritage, the Canadian folk revival, and folklore scholarship at large.
The Authors:
Musicologist Glenn Colton, PhD, is Professor Emeritus and formerly Chair of the Department of Music at Lakehead University. His research explores aspects of music in Canada, with a focus on the musical traditions of Newfoundland and Labrador. Anna Kearney Guigné is an independent folklorist and adjunct professor affiliated with the graduate programs in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her research focuses on twentieth-century folksong collecting, folk music revivals, and the history of Canadian and Newfoundland traditional music.
Featuring folksongs from the Karpeles collection performed by Ellen Power, readings and discussion from the authors, a cash bar, a book sale, and time to mingle over snacks and refreshments.
🗓️ Thursday, November 26 at 7:00 PM
📍 ELKS Club (19 Carpasian Road)
All are welcome to attend & admission is free!
The Book:
Between 1929 and 1930, Maud Karpeles, one of the leading figures in the English folk song and dance revival, undertook two song-collecting expeditions to Newfoundland. Across forty-six communities in eight regions of the Island, she notated 197 songs from approximately 115 singers. Fourteen Fleeting Weeks tells that story through annotated diaries, photographs, and thirty-six previously unpublished songs, and highlights the impact of Karpeles’s work on Newfoundland’s musical heritage, the Canadian folk revival, and folklore scholarship at large.
The Authors:
Musicologist Glenn Colton, PhD, is Professor Emeritus and formerly Chair of the Department of Music at Lakehead University. His research explores aspects of music in Canada, with a focus on the musical traditions of Newfoundland and Labrador. Anna Kearney Guigné is an independent folklorist and adjunct professor affiliated with the graduate programs in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her research focuses on twentieth-century folksong collecting, folk music revivals, and the history of Canadian and Newfoundland traditional music.
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Where is it happening?
St. John's Elks Club 245, 19 Carpasian Rd, St John's, NL A1B 2P9, Canada, St. John's
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Host or PublisherMemorial University Press
