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Identifiant de l’institution contributrice
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MCC-00002
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Description
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fr
Cet instrument de recherche fournit des renseignements sur la « Collection de chansons A. J. Michaud, Manuscrits », une collection de transcriptions de textes de chansons recueillies auprès des résidents de la haute vallée de la rivière Saint-Jean, Amaranthe J. Michaud, en 1969 et 1970. Une chercheuse de longue date de la vallée du Saint-Jean. histoire, Michaud était autrefois président de la Société historique du Madawaska. Cette collection comprend 477 pages de textes de chansons en français recueillis dans la haute vallée de la Saint-Jean en 1969 et 1970 par A. J. Michaud. Les textes semblent avoir été retranscrits soit à partir des enregistrements de terrain de M. Michaud, soit à partir de « gribouillis » manuscrits empruntés à des riverains. De nombreuses pages sont des doublons (carbones). Les chansons représentent un large éventail de répertoires, y compris des chansons traditionnelles françaises d'avant le XVIIIe siècle, des chansons patriotiques, comiques et sentimentales françaises et canadiennes du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe siècle, ainsi que des compositions locales.
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Déclaration de droit d’auteur et conditions d’utilisation
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There are not restrictions on access to this collection.
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Degré
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477 pages
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Arrangement
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fr
Le matériel est arrivé dans deux classeurs à trois anneaux et quatre classeurs à trois volets. Le personnel des archives a retiré et regroupé les documents dans des dossiers d'archives. L'ordre d'origine dans chaque dossier de fichiers a été conservé. L'un des classeurs contenait trop de documents pour être stocké de manière appropriée dans un seul dossier ; ces documents ont été séparés en deux dossiers (dossiers 2 et 3).
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Remarques
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This collection consists of 477 pages of French-language song texts collected in the Upper Saint John Valley during 1969 and 1970 by A. J. Michaud. The texts appear to have been transcribed either from Mr. Michaud’s field recordings or from handwritten "scribblers" borrowed from local residents. Many pages are duplicates (carbons). The songs represent a wide range of repertory, including pre-eighteenth century French Traditional songs, French and French-Canadian nineteenth century and early twentieth century patriotic, comic, and sentimental songs, as well as local compositions. Amaranthe J. Michaud was born in Van Buren, Maine, 8 November
1908, the son of Timothy and Nalvina (St. Jean) Michaud. He attended Sacred Heart
School in Van Buren, St. Mary’s College in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, the University of
Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, and the University of Grenoble in France.
As a young man, A. J. Michaud taught and served as principal at the Lincoln School in
Grand Isle. On 28 May 1937, he married Antoinette Vermette of Grand Isle and they
raised five sons. From 1946 to 1972, he was proprietor of A. J. Michaud Co. Farm
Machinery of Grand Isle, Maine. He was a member of the Fourth Degree Assembly of
the Knights of Columbus and of the St. John Valley Council of Madawaska. He was a
member of the Rotary Club and was an advisor of the Madawaska branch of the
Aroostook Trust Company.
Keenly interested in the history and culture of the St. John Valley, A. J. Michaud cofounded and was president of the Madawaska Historical Society in its early years.
Between 1969 and 1974, he wrote over 130 short essays on various local topics for the St.
John Valley Times, a portion of which were published in 1972 as An Acadian Heritage
from the Saint John River Valley.
A. J. Michaud died in Presque Isle following a short illness on 4 May 1974 at the age of
65. This collection was prepared by A. J. Michaud. After
Michaud’s death in 1974, the collection was transferred by his widow to Roger Paradis,
Professor of History at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, "to be archived at U.M.F.K.,
if possible or at Moncton if necessary." This collection, was brought to the Acadian
Archives by Professor Paradis in March 1991. A note from Professor Paradis suggests
that this collection may represent part of a larger corpus.
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Citation recommandée
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A. J. Michaud Song Collection: Manuscripts, MCC-00002, Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes, University of Maine at Fort Kent
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