Toward a Bibliography of Canadian Folk Music

or many years Canadian scholars in the field of aboriginal and folk music felt need to take stock of the work already accomplished and to gain quicker access to the existing literature. The actual size of this literature, its relative strength in the Eskimo, Indian, French, English, Slavic and other fields was matter of speculation only. A stock-taking would enable researchers to benefit from each other's work; it might draw attention to neglected areas of investigation and facilitate the encouragement and education of new generation of ethnomusicologists. Therefore, as early as 1963 the Canadian Folk Music Society [CFMS] agreed to produce a complete bibliography of work done, work in progress, and raw materials amassed ready for study.1 From the unsatisfactory results produced soon afterwards by an elaborate questionnaire-type survey, lesson was learned: the same method of documentation could not be applied to satisfy the requirements of bibliography, such as the listing of books, articles, recordings and other units of published material, or for song index as exemplified by Conrad Laforte (1958), or an inventory of unpublished archival holdings. Bibliographies, indices and inventories are essential, but

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• The Present State of French-Canadian Folklore Studies

  Luc Lacourciere•Journal of American Folklore•1961

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