Awards

• Runner-up for IndieFab awards (Music) 2007
• Short-listed for Margaret McWilliams Medal, Manitoba Historical Society 2007 (Canada)
• Winner of ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Bronze Prize, Music Category 2007 (Canada)

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<i>Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music</i>, with its accompanying compact disc is a welcome and much-needed addition to the literature on the musical expressions of Canada's First Nations...and who better to guide us on this journey then Lynn Whidden, who has herself lived in Canada's North for much of her life.''--Paula Conlon Native Studies Review, Vol. 17, #1, 2008

A thoughtful and valuable ethnography, grounded in Whidden's knowledge and field experience with the Northern Cree.''--M. Celia Cain Ethnomusicology, Vol. 52, No. 3, Fall 2008 Along with the detailed descriptions of the repertoire giving context, text, and translation into English, this study is extremely valuable for considering each musical manifestation within Cree existence. The details of the relationship of the hunter with the bird, animal, or fish, through the particular song being used, underlines how different the view of the Cree person is from a member of the Canadian dominant society.... I want to underline that this is a particularly valuable document on northern Cree music.... All libraries dealing with musical expressions and Native Studies should have this book in their collection.''--Elaine Keillor Canadian Association of Music Libraries Review, Volume 35, #3, November 2007 Providing a thorough account of the musical culture of the Cree people ... this excellent book makes a unique contribution to ethnomusicology.... Highly recommended.''--B. Nettl CHOICE, January 2008 Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, with its accompanying compact disc is a welcome and much-needed addition to the literature on the musical expressions of Canada's First Nations...and who better to guide us on this journey then Lynn Whidden, who has herself lived in Canada's North for much of her life.''--Paula Conlon Native Studies Review, Vol. 17, #1, 2008 One of the strengths of this book is its view of Cree music, past and present, as integral to the lives of the people who have created and used it.... In this lucid and engaging work Lynn Whidden has created a valuable resource for young northern Cree who seek to strengthen their communities by building more elements from their own culture into their lives; and, for anyone with an interest in subarctic cultures, in the music of the Canadian north -- or in Cree expression of the universal human need for song -- Essential Song is essential reading.''--John Bennett Meridian: Canadian Polar Commission, Fall/Winter 2007

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Lynn Whidden is a professor emerita of Indigenous studies and music at Brandon University, Manitoba.

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