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The Music of Our Burnished Axes...offers a way into understanding the interactions between music-making and labor among North American woods workers. It additionally provides a brand-new reference source for those looking to put into sonic context the lives and work of members of this community. - Katherine Pukinskis, The Journal of Folklore Research - The Journal of Folklore Research The Music of Our Burnished Axes provides a corpus of material that is ripe for future research. It is commendable both for the breadth of the authors' research and for the success of their efforts to let the sources speak for themselves. The voices of woods workers in Newfoundland and Labrador resound with great clarity. - Lachlan MacKinnon, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies - Lachlan MacKinnon, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies [The Music of Our Burnished Axes] is a strong, stirring composition of voices. What a resource; what a trove. - Joan Sullivan, The Telegram - The Telegram

""The Music of Our Burnished Axes...offers a way into understanding the interactions between music-making and labor among North American woods workers. It additionally provides a brand-new reference source for those looking to put into sonic context the lives and work of members of this community."" - Katherine Pukinskis, The Journal of Folklore Research - The Journal of Folklore Research ""The Music of Our Burnished Axes provides a corpus of material that is ripe for future research. It is commendable both for the breadth of the authors' research and for the success of their efforts to let the sources speak for themselves. The voices of woods workers in Newfoundland and Labrador resound with great clarity."" - Lachlan MacKinnon, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies - Lachlan MacKinnon, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies ""[The Music of Our Burnished Axes] is a strong, stirring composition of voices. What a resource; what a trove."" - Joan Sullivan, The Telegram - The Telegram

The Music of Our Burnished Axes...offers a way into understanding the interactions between music-making and labor among North American woods workers. It additionally provides a brand-new reference source for those looking to put into sonic context the lives and work of members of this community. - Katherine Pukinskis, The Journal of Folklore Research - The Journal of Folklore Research The Music of Our Burnished Axes provides a corpus of material that is ripe for future research. It is commendable both for the breadth of the authors' research and for the success of their efforts to let the sources speak for themselves. The voices of woods workers in Newfoundland and Labrador resound with great clarity. - Lachlan MacKinnon, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies - Lachlan MacKinnon, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies [The Music of Our Burnished Axes]?is a strong, stirring composition of voices. What a resource; what a trove. - Joan Sullivan, The Telegram - The Telegram

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Ursula A. Kelly is a professor in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University. She is the author of several books and essays. Most recently, she wrote and produced Mentioned in Song (MMaP), the first recording of the original songs and recitations of early woods workers of Newfoundland and Labrador. Meghan C. Forsyth is an ethnomusicologist specializing in instrumental music and dance traditions of the Acadian diaspora. She is project coordinator of the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media and Place (MMaP) and director of the Bruneau Centre for Excellence in Choral Music at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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