Ebooks for the Classroom+Faculty

Community Music in Alberta: Some Good School House Stuff!
ISBN: 9781552383148
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Calgary Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Community music -- Alberta -- History and criticism; Community music -- Alberta -- Pictorial works;

An album of photographs and musical experiences during the first century of Alberta's history. Explore Alberta's astonishing musical heritage, from brass bands and minstrel shows to Ukrainian folk music and symphonies, from native singers to Wilf Carter.

George W. Lyon has been researching Alberta vernacular culture since 1984. In 1991, he co-edited, with Sid Holt of Gleichen, Alberta, an anthology of Alberta folk and popular poetry, titled A Toast to Baldy Red. Lyon teaches English at Mount Royal College in Calgary and makes music on a variety of instruments.