Fiddle music in the Ottawa Valley

Discovering Maine’s Intangible Cultural Heritage

Cultural Sustainabilities ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252042362.003.0023 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 283-294

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Human Life ◽

Natural World ◽

Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

Ongoing Research ◽

Cultural Rights ◽

Boat Building ◽

Fiddle Music ◽

The Impact

This chapter reviews the historic and ongoing research of the state of Maine's intangible cultural heritage and shows how this work addresses the need for conservation, advocacy, education, and stewardship of this heritage. Maine is especially rich in intangible cultural heritage including the knowledge involved in crafting fine Native American basketry, boat building, fiddle music and dance, knowledge of the natural world among fishermen, woodsmen, millworkers, and farmers, folk singing, storytelling and much more. Cultural rights and ownership, the role of community scholars, and the impact of tourism is considered. The chapter concludes by suggesting that culturally-sensitive and engaged research has strengthened our understanding of how the ecosystem is essential to human life and culture.

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Show me a strathspey: taking steps to digitize tune collections

Reference Reviews ◽

10.1108/rr-03-2015-0073 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 30 (7) ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Karen McAulay

Keyword(s):

Design Methodology ◽

Research Council ◽

Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽

Effective Means ◽

Music Notation ◽

Content Type ◽

Arts And Humanities ◽

Fiddle Music ◽

Computer Scientists ◽

Digital Encoding

Purpose The present paper describes an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) research project into Scottish fiddle music and the important considerations of music digitization, access and discovery in designing the website that will be one of the project’s enduring outcomes. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a general review of existing online indices to music repertoires and some of the general problems associated with selecting metadata and indexing such material and is a survey of the various recent and contemporary projects into the digital encoding of musical notation for online use. Findings The questions addressed during the design of the Bass Culture project database serve to highlight the importance of cooperation between musicologists, information specialists and computer scientists, and the benefits of having researchers with strengths in more than one of these disciplines. The Music Encoding Initiative proves an effective means of providing digital access to the Scottish fiddle tune repertoire. Originality/value The digital encoding of music notation is still comparatively cutting-edge; the Bass Culture project is thus a useful exemplar for interdisciplinary collaboration between musicologists, information specialists and computer scientists, and it addresses issues which are likely to be applicable to future projects of this nature.

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