{"id":541,"date":"2017-06-14T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T20:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/?page_id=541"},"modified":"2017-11-10T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:20:27","slug":"franco-memory-through-song","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/franco-memory-through-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco Memory through Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"column-left\">\n<p>Project URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Project Status: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/status\/\">Completed<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"column-right\">\n<p>In the Spring 2017, the students of Colby\u2019s MU493 (Sounds of Maine: Research Methods and Practice in Ethnomusicology) set out to learn about Maine\u2019s Franco American music culture by interviewing members of Les Troubadours, an all-women\u2019s Franco American choir based in Lewiston, Maine. As part of their research, the students made audio recordings and transcribed a number of songs performed by this group. We sought out repertoire that had not yet been notated, was less familiar, or that was a part of prosaic, everyday life, such as lullabies and children\u2019s songs.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that this website presents a vivid snapshot of some of the Franco songs as they are performed by members of Les Troubadours as well as a brief introduction to three members of this vibrant group, Aliette Couturier, Irene Mercier, and Jeannine Doucette.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project URL: http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/memorythroughsong\/ Project Status: Completed In the Spring 2017, the students of Colby\u2019s MU493 (Sounds of Maine: Research Methods and Practice in Ethnomusicology) set out to learn about Maine\u2019s Franco American music culture by interviewing members of Les Troubadours, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/franco-memory-through-song\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7111,"featured_media":544,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}