Music and the Staged Veillee in Quebec Adam Schwartz and it dramatically altered the

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This book collects essays by leading scholars

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Music and the Staged Veillee in Quebec Adam Schwartz and it dramatically altered theThe story of a cultural touchstone and its impact Fiddlers, step dancers, storytellers, traditional singers, and folklorists staged Montreal's first veillEe in 1919. All that was missing, announced one of the organizers, was a magic carpet to transport the audience into the countryside and a kiss of forgetfulness to erase the woes of modern life. Laura Risk tells the story of the veillees and explores how these commercial performances of idealized