The governed voice : understanding folksong as a public expression of Acadian culture
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Abstract
This dissertation investigates the folksong repertoire of the Acadians of the Maritimes, a small French diasporic community found scattered throughout Canada's east coast provinces. Exploring the relationship between folksong and Acadia's changing sense of nation from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day, chapter one begins by examining how paradigms in French folksong scholarship contributed to reimaginings of Acadian national identity and the socio-linguistic stratification of Acadians during the twentieth century. The following three chapters identify how folksong has helped shape different constructions of Acadian national identity in new historical contexts. The first describes the Acadians as part of an eglise-nation during the first half of the twentieth century, illustrating how differences in the Catholic clergy's use of folksong created a dialectical construction of national identity in Acadian society. The second looks at how provincial divisions between Acadian communities during bilingual language reform in 1970s Canada led New Brunswick Acadians to draw on folksong's historicity to claim space and compete with their English-speaking neighbours. The third reflects how the Acadians, since Canadian constitutional reforms began in the 1980s, have engaged folksong in constructing a 'borderless' sense of nation to express opposition to Quebec sovereignty. In an analysis of how Acadia's cultural voice has been governed in processes of nation-formation, this work explores how folksong's past meanings - newly framed and experienced within each historical moment - have affected not only the status of folksong, but also the Acadians' relationship with folksong over time.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".