Books & Research

Réal Boucher: Metis Music and Memoirs.

Réal’s 55 songs and family history set in the dramatic changes of the prairie environment (forthcoming).

Whidden, Lynn and Paul Shore. Environment Matters. Why Song Sounds the Way It does. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019.

For Electronic Habitat in Environment Matters, view Sylvian, by Luis Ramirez, using MIDI information, digital synthesizers, and other digital effects or filters as the basis for this composition.

Essential song, Three Generations of Northern Cree Music. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press, 2007.

This study of subarctic Quebec and Manitoba Cree song looks at the tradition of the hunting songs and the impact of social change, including the introduction of hymns, gospel tunes and country music. Foreword written by Eric Robinson and Afterword by Stanley L. Loutitt.

Songs can be heard at : https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/E/Essential-Song2

Metis Songs: Visiting Was the Metis Way. Gabriel Dumont Institute, 1993. www.Metismuseum.ca

Prairie Metis songs from the prairies with music notation and words in original languages, French, Michif and English.

Songs of the Northern Plains. Edmonton: Weigl Educational Publishers, 1992.

Indigenous songs from variety of sources. Contact Author.

Folk Songs from Thompson, Manitoba. Thompson Citizenship Council Inc.

Illustrations by Ricardo Rodriguez, 1978. A compilation of songs from around the world in one northern mining community. Contact author.