Mentioned in Song: Song Traditions of the Loggers of Newfoundland and Labrador by Ursula Kelly (review)
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Abstract
Mentioned in Song: Song Traditions of the Loggers of Newfoundland and Labrador. 2014. produced, compiled, and annotated by ursula kelly. research centre for the Study of music, media and place (mmap), memorial university of newfoundland, cD (1), mmapcD08.Edith Fowke produced Lumbering Songs from the Ontario Shanties (Folkways), her seminal album of field-recorded folk from ontario's woods tradition, in 1961. unlike the other important canadian compilation of lumber and river songs from new brunswick released by louise manny the following year, Fowke chose not to survey the full variety of sung in ontario lumbering communities but rather to narrow the record's focus to about lumbering itself. Though somewhat misleading in its portrayal of the woods repertoire, this tactic allowed Fowke to pare down a mountain of material into a single release while maximizing portraying the woods work experience itself.Mentioned in Song: Song Traditions of the Loggers of Newfoundland and Labrador takes a similar approach to the underexplored woods tradition of newfoundland and labrador. cD with accompanying booklet is the latest release from the back on track series produced by the research centre for the Study of music, media and place (mmap) at memorial university of newfoundland. According to the series' webpage, the goal of back on track is to make rare and currently inaccessible recordings of music and folklore available to a broader public along with photo-rich, historically detailed liner notes exceed the normal standards of documentation (http://www.mun.ca/mmap/ back_on_track). Accordingly, the large DVDstyle packaging of Mentioned in Song holds a 27-track audio cD (mostly unpublished field recordings) and a whopping 88-page booklet containing a historical introduction, dozens of photographs, song notes, lyric transcriptions, two maps, a time line, and a glossary. employing a technique used for other mmap releases, the cD mixes archival recordings dating from the 1950s through the 1980s with new recordings of older material arranged and performed by active musicians based in newfoundland and labrador. 23 archival recordings dominate, with four new recordings interspersed throughout the track order. Altogether, there are 23 song performances, two instrumentals, and two recitations.Mentioned in Song is guest produced for mmap by Dr. ursula kelly, a member of the Faculty of education at memorial. With this production, kelly sets out to the story of [newfoundland and labrador] from the point of view of loggers themselves (p. 5). to this end, she adopts Fowke's approach, concentrating on material that takes as its subject the work of logging, lumbering, and personal woodcutting for family fuel (p. 6). She also favors locally composed in her selections, invoking the pioneering newfoundland song researcher John Ashton's reasoning local tell the most accurate stories of loggers and logging (p. 3). Mentioned in Song taps into the rich supply of locally composed material held in the memorial university of newfoundland Folklore and language Archive (munFlA). munFlA collections, gathered mainly by students and faculty, supply most of the archival material on the cD.The themes, poetic conventions, and performance practices of many of the and recitations connect the newfoundland and labrador woods tradition to of other regions. There are about travelling to the job site (The gambo Way, Johnny payne), come-all-ye's about poor living conditions and bad pay (indian bay Song, Sandy harbour town), moniker listing and poking fun at crew members (bert chaffey's camp, Slaughter cove pond, The peelwood Song), and humorous accounts of camp antics (bert chaffey's camp, brophy's mill, north twin lake, birch rind pete). Spoken, declamando endings appear on three (Shearstown Woods Song, Johnny payne, chanson de bucherons/lumberjack Song). …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".