HBS Citation Sytle Guide. Great Big Sea - When I'm Up (Video) Traditional Newfoundland Music. Traditional Music: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. Traditional Music As a cultural touchstone, both a shared experience and national badge of honour in Newfoundland and Labrador, only the codfish can rival traditional music.
With its narrative power, distinctive sound and strong links to Western Europe, traditional music represents the province's history and culture, and forms a vital link between the past and present. For many it is also a proud and powerful manifestation of the “unique Newfoundland and Labrador character.” No less important is the fact that the music continues to evolve and flourish as popular entertainment. Although it has been conveniently cleaned up, packaged and promoted for tourism purposes, the music itself has refused to devolve into cliché or artefact. It is often called “Celtic music,” and its connection with music made by the Celtic peoples of Brittany, Ireland, Scotland and Wales is obvious.
It was not until the 20th century that the first attempts were made to document the music. Rockin’ the Rock: The Newfoundland Folk/Pop "Revolution" 1 OUTSIDE MY OFFICE there is a poster advertising "A fundraiser for Culture & Tradition.
"2 Emblazoned with a border of Celtic design, and adorned with the names of the various protectors/performers of Newfoundland identity, the poster also sports the clever name of this benefit concert for heritage: For Folk’s Sake. An obvious play on a well-known expletive, the title reflects the duelling notions of duty and despair that so often form an aura around such moments of protecting and preserving a disappearing culture. In these moments, performers can become what sociologist James Overton classifies as "folk-singing patriots" engaged in a battle of "cultural survival" (6). Sometimes these moments call for more than the playful allusion to gruff language, as Overton notes in "A Newfoundland Culture? " (citing Peter Narváez): "Audiences are told by performers to shut up and be quiet because ‘we’re preserving your fucking culture’" (15). Figure 1. Display large image of Figure 1. Fandom as Magical Practice: Great Big Sea, Stockwell Day, and Spoiled Identity.
Fandom as Magical Practice:Great Big Sea, Stockwell Day, and Spoiled Identity Peter NarváezMemorial University 1 BEGINNING IN 1977, AND continuing for over two decades, I taught undergraduate and graduate courses in folklore and popular culture that explored small group expressive uses of mass-mediated materials. Of the many paper topics fitting this theme, ethnographies of fandom predominated. Thus I discovered through my students’ work that several basements in St. John’s housed Star Trek main bridges be-decked with life-size cutouts of Captain Picard and Data, major Star Trek characters; that home shrines and displays lovingly devoted to Elvis were commonplace; and that carloads of young Newfoundland women made pilgrimages to the United States to see the Indigo Girls perform live. 2 Since then, fandom studies have burgeoned. 4 Fans act like practitioners of magic.
Music of Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfoundland and Labrador is an Atlantic Canadian province with a folk musical heritage based on the Irish, English and Cornish traditions that were brought to its shores centuries ago.
Though similar in its Celtic influence to neighbouring Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador is more Irish than Scottish, and has more elements imported from English and Cornish music than those provinces. Newfoundland music, while quite obviously Celtic and seafaring in its orientation, is in some cases is quite easily identifiable as being specific to Newfoundland. Much of the region's music focuses on the strong seafaring tradition in the area, and includes sea shanties and other sailing songs. Some modern traditional musicians include Great Big Sea, The Ennis Sisters, Shanneyganock and Ron Hynes. History[edit] A bone flute found at L'Anse Amour in Labrador is the first evidence of the presence of music in Newfoundland and Labrador. Outside Influences[edit] Modern era[edit]
Great Big Sea. Great Big Sea is a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, Scottish, and Cornish heritage.
History[edit] Beginnings[edit] Power, McCann and Hallett had already been playing together in another band. In the winter of 1989, the band, a six piece with guitar, bass, fiddle, accordion and mandolin played its first ever gig, two songs, at the Memorial University's winter carnival talent show under the name "Newfoundland Republican Army" or NRA, and won first prize.
The band's only other appearance as NRA was later that winter at the university "Grad House". The band found its new name as original bassist Jeff Scott rented an apartment on Rankin Street, St. According to Doyle, Rankin Street owned a PA system and he owned a van, which made Great Big Sea "a match made in heaven The 2000s[edit] Recent career[edit]
Fiddling with Technology: The Effect of Media on Newfoundland Traditional Musicians. Fiddling with Technology:The Effect of Media on Newfoundland Traditional Musicians1 Evelyn OsborneMemorial Universityevelyn_osborne@yahoo.com 1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUND technologies since the late nineteenth century has been as revolutionary for musicians as the printing press was for verbal communication in the fifteenth century.
By the late twentieth century, the remotest of villages had access to new sounds and information from across the globe.