In Flanders Fields: Music of Remembrance in the Songs of Frederick R

Emerson Glenn, D Colton
unpublished
In our folk music we have something which is very much alive. These songs are the most living things which we today can share with our earliest Newfoundland forefathers. They are worthy of our study because they are the very heart of our real Newfoundland culture. When we sing these songs we are at one with all the people of our country and one with all the folk of the earliest days of our island history (Frederick Rennie Emerson, 1895 -1972 .
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