Voicing the Wilderness: Chant as an Expression of Canadian Culture in R. MurraySchafer's And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A discussion of R. Murray Schafer's environmental music theatre is, inevitably, a discussion of culture. The outspoken composer, writer and educator is deeply engaged in the perennial Canadian question: what constitutes an authentic Canadian art? Yet Schafer has sometimes been accused of cultural misappropriation, of helping himself too freely from the great stewing pot of world myths and musics, and in particular of an imperialistic attitude towards First Nations culture. To dismiss Schafer in this way is to ignore the importance of his explorations in culture, community and art; for in borrowing from world cultures, Schafer acknowledges the multiplicity of cultures within his homeland even as he attempts to give voice to a necessarily hybrid yet indigenous art, rooted in the Canadian wilderness. Schafer's collaborative music drama Patria the Epilogue: And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon epitomizes this artistic synthesis which is best seen through the work's use of chant as an expression of a community founded in an environmental context.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.031 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".