Athabascan Fiddle Festival

[Gary Holton]

Craig Mishler's dissertation, published as

http://books.google.com/books?id=2gj7QM41crIC&dq

gives a nice history of the adoption of fiddle music by Athabaskans.

Music of this type also reached the coast much earlier but was not
adopted as enthusiastically in Alaska as it was in arctic Canada.




On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Andrea L. Berez
<andrea.berez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fiddling as Athabascan popular culture went even further down the Yukon too,
> at least as far as Anvik and Shageluk (Deg Xinag territory). Whether it made
> it all the way to the sea, I do not know.
>
> Andrea
> -----------------------------
> Andrea L. Berez
> PhD candidate, Dept. of Linguistics
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:47 AM, James Crippen <jcrippen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I forgot to mention that the Athabascan Fiddle Festival happened a
>> couple of weeks ago in Fairbanks.
>>
>>
>> http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/10388278/article-Fiddle-Festival-celebrated-in-Fairbanks?
>>
>> Athabascan fiddling seems to have arisen from miners, trappers, and
>> other white immigrants in the late 19th century. They travelled and
>> settled in the Yukon and Alaska, bringing their music along with them.
>> Athabaskans in the region (Gwichʼin, Hän, Upper Tanana, etc.) adopted
>> the fiddling traditions and made them their own.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James
>
>