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Hommage a Marius Barbeau.(Sound Recording Review)
CBC TRCD 3004, 2003.
Marius Barbeau was a French-Candian anthropogist who traveled throughout Eastern Canada between 1916 and 1946, recording and transcribing traditional songs in the remote villages and coastal towns of the region. During those three decades he filled approximately tour thousand wax cylinders with field recordings and created roughly eight thousand written transcriptions of the songs he had recorded. Among those recordings were more than 180 cylinders of performances by one Louis Simard, an itinerant musician with a tremendous repertoire. Other subjects were women who shared the very long songs that they sang while weaving or spinning (and which Barbeau was forced to transcribe in shorthand when he ran out of room on a cylinder), and traveling laborers who sang to relieve the tedium of their professions. In 2001, musicologist Danielle Martineau gathered a small group of likeminded singers and instrumentalists to rerecord ...
- `Best field for tourist sale of books': Marius Barbeau, the Macmillan Company...
- Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada Nurse, Andrew March 22, 1998 700+ words
...doctoral dissertation is a study of Marius Barbeau and the development of modern anthropology in Canada. When Marius Barbeau was hired as an assistant ethnologist...public presentation of folkore. Marius Barbeau is widely considered to be the...
- [Man of mana: Marius Barbeau]
- Magazine article from: Anthropologica Nowry, Laurence; Darnell, Regna-reviewer January 1, 1996 700+ words
This first book-length biography of Marius Barbeau (1883-1969), self-styled "ethnologist, folklorist, musician and historian" (p. 390), relies heavily on Barbeau interviews...
- Barbeau, Marius
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography January 1, 2005 700+ words
Marius Barbeau Dedicating his life to preserving...cultures of northernmost America, Marius Barbeau (1883 – 1969) was perhaps...Ethnographer, anthropologist, and author Marius Barbeau devoted his life to preserving the...
- Exploring the quintessential: Art for a Nation
- Magazine article from: Journal of Canadian Studies Rodgers, Margaret July 1, 1996 700+ words
...Wilfred Pelletier Sir Ernest MacMillan, E.J. Pratt, Marius Barbeau, Brooke Claxton, and Vincent Massey. Like other major...ways, and perhaps in spite of themselves. Ethnologist Marius Barbeau compared the importation of cultural values to importing...
- Conrad Laforte (1921-2008).(Obituary/Necrologie)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: Ethnologies De Surmont, Jean Nicolas March 22, 2009 700+ words
...Des le debut des annees 1950, inspire par ses maitres Marius Barbeau, Felix-Antoine Savard et Luc Lacourciere, il a effectue...ethnologie et de folklore, et recipiendaire de la medaille Marius Barbeau en 1999, il fut egalement nomme Folkloriste canadien distingue...
- Elizabeth Cleaver, William Toye, and Oxford University Press: creating the...
- Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada Saltman, Judith Edwards, Gail book, children's March 22, 2004 700+ words
...Country and Other Indian Tales, 1956), Arthur Price (Marius Barbeau and Michael Hornyansky's The Golden Phoenix and Other...and black and white, with a text based on a folktale from Marius Barbeau's The Golden Phoenix, and Other French-Canadian Fairy...
- Northern Haida Master Carvers.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Oregon Historical Quarterly Bringhurst, Robert September 22, 2002 700+ words
...artistry shows. In addition to his prominence as a mythteller, Kingagwaaw was an important late nineteenth-century carver. Marius Barbeau (who insisted on calling him King Ego) wrote of him at length but published much less than he wrote. Wright mentions...
- Reconsidering Emily Carr.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal Baker, Marilyn March 22, 2007 700+ words
...hosts sixteen years later when she returned on a second northern expedition to paint in Haida Gwaii (vi). Carr wrote to Marius Barbeau in 1928 about her intended trip, "I want to get back, even if the poles are all gone I want to get the feel of the places...
