Music in Haliburton: Sounding through the Community

Music in Haliburton: Sounding through the Community

Wade, Jill

Wadland, John; Whillans, Tom
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies

TPB-549

n.d.

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Haliburton County

Local music and the outdoor environment

Music in Haliburton is perceived as providing a reflection of the face of the community in this paper which looks at threads of continuity within the musical community with respect to how the outdoor environment is expressed through music. Several themes seen as central to the Haliburton musical experience are outlined and developed. Among these are the music of the logging camps, the role of the church in establishing a central space for music, community initiatives that bring the musicality of the bioregion into the open, and the sounds of Haliburton themselves - the use of the local outdoor environment for listening and inspiring musical creativity. A discussion of music in outlying areas such as Haliburton is presented employing the concept of "cultural resource theory" in which such areas are seen as acting as cultural producers, interpreting the resources of larger centres but not dependent on them for economic fulfillment.

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