Acadian Folksongs from Maine: Mémère's Notebook - Volume One

Auteurs : Elisa Sylvain et Robert Sylvain, Jr.

Éditeur : Kitchen Party Publishing

Date de parution : 2020

ISBN : 978058648897

Résumé :

Representing a mélange of poignant laments & serenades along with uproarious broadsides & epics, the original notebook includes over fifty pages of lyrics written down by my paternal grandmother, in the great tradition of passing down folklore through song.  About half of the three dozen songs - of which twelve are presented in this first volume - have been identified and attributed to their autochthonous melodies found on field recordings in academic archives from the Maritimes, Québec, Maine and Europe.  With the exception of a few French popular songs from early radio days (not apprearing in this volume) all are chansons folklorique from the expansive Acadian repertoire which draws from old-world Breton chestnuts and medieval Occitan troubadour songs as well as new-wolrd stories born from 400 years of hard winters on the North Atlantic coast.