“The folklore treasure there is astounding” : Reappraising Margaret Sargent McTaggart’s Contribution to the Documentation of Newfoundland Folksong at Mid-Century

• Published in: Ethnologies
• Main Author: Guigné, Anna Kearney
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Association Canadienne d'Ethnologie et de Folklore 2007
• Subjects: Canada; Peacock; Newfoundland; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/018749ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/018749ar

In 1949, anthropologist Marius Barbeau recruited Margaret Sargent, a young classically trained musician from Ontario to work for him at the National Museum of Canada. As the first ever musicologist to be employed by this institution, Sargent’s first task was to transfer Barbeau’s wax cylinder sound...