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French-Canadian music in Bowdoin College senior research

Lowell Ruck is from Orono, Maine

“Jigs, Reals and ‘Realness’: An Investigation of Ideas of Authenticity and Tradition in New England French Canadian Music,” by Lowell Ruck. Quite often, Franco-American reports and stories written by others are just too perfect to summarize or “fiddle around” with. That’s somewhat metaphorical when writing about Lowell Ruck’s Bowdoin College senior thesis, “Jigs, Reals and […]