Don Roy, Fiddle Music, and Social Sustenance in Franco New England

Faux, Tom

Profile of the life, training, and works of expert Maine-based fiddler, Don Roy. The musical traditions in which he seats himself, and the attention he has brought to contemporary fiddle playing through public performance. The author's critique of models of cultural sustainability, cultural preservation industry, and other institutions through the example of Roy's pursuits, his community music project, "Fiddle-icious," and through his "inherited sense of music as a participatory activity" (36). Summary history of Franco American immigration and subsequent communities in southern Maine. Contains segments of interviews with Don Roy and Cindy Roy, among others.

2009

en

Journal Article

20th century

Maine

0043-8774

World of Music

51

1

35-54