The Fiddle Burning Priest of Mabou. The Fiddle Burning Priest of Mabou.

The Fiddle Burning Priest of Mabou‪.‬

Ethnologies 2008, Fall, 30, 2

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* Le pere Kenneth MacDonald a ete le cure de Mabou, a l'ile du CapBreton, de 1865 a 1894. Les documents ecrits le depeignent comme un censeur social pratiquant une discipline tres stricte : condamnant la consommation d'alcool, reprouvant les pique-niques et dictant a ses paroissiens pour qui il fallait voter. Toutefois, les ecrits semblent passer sous silence l'evenement dont les habitants parlent encore : comment il est alle de porte en porte pour bruler leurs violons. Bien qu'elle ne soit qu'une petite ville rurale, Mabou revet une grande importance culturelle au Cap-Breton, en etant meme consideree comme le berceau de la musique traditionnelle du Cap-Breton. C'est en effet le violon qui est l'icone centrale des manifestations a la fois traditionnelles et populaires de cette musique. * Father Kenneth MacDonald was the priest of Mabou, Cape Breton, from 1865-1894. Written accounts detail him as a strict disciplinarian and social advocate: against the consumption of alcohol; disliking picnics; and telling parishioners how to vote. But the written word seems to leave out the one event that locals still discuss: how he went door to door and burnt their fiddles. Although a small rural town, Mabou is one of cultural importance in Cape Breton, considered the heart of Cape Breton traditional music. Of central iconic importance in both the folk and popular manifestations of this music is the fiddle.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2008
September 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
33
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ethnologies
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
191.9
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