Braintree
Sam Mullen
This first year seminar focuses on the folk musics of the United States and the ways that music, as a cultural and artistic expression, articulates a community’s values, identity, heritage, and worldview. We explore the music of various immigrant cultures, such as the Scotch-Irish in Southern Appalachia, the Germans in the upper Midwest, the Cajuns and Creoles in Louisiana, and the Caribbean nations people in urban centers.
Students connect the broader issues of folk music in the United States to the local experience by designing and collaborating on a project to document the musical cultures of Massachusetts, relating the cultural practices to the immigration patterns of the region. Their work is presented here as a set of websites they have developed that tell the stories about the musical life of towns around the Commonwealth. It dovetails with the folklore work done at the state level, which can be viewed at Keepers of Tradition.
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Sam Mullen
Ryan Condrick
Lu Vega
Eric Bissonnette
Nate Albert
Petroy Thomposon
Karelle Sylla
Jay Heyward
EJ Doyle
Amir Abdel-Rehim
Vida Pappas
Kyle Pannone
Jackie Tissot
Krystal Green
Michael Scanlan
Emmanuel Manu
Elizabeth Tobin
Brandon Rodriguez
Sarah Kane
Ben Gaffey
Denver Weeks
Meghan Moore
Catherine Hoye
Kristen Shine
Kara Foley
Maesha Ulcena
Jared Mackler
Paul Buckley
Stephen Cincotta
Sabina Crowley
Brendan Smith
Kristen Connors
Carter Craft
Emily Mendes
by Christopher Penza
Sarah Conway
Caitlin Magane
Zachary Latini