Conrad Laforte
{{Short description|Québécois ethnologist and librarian}}
Conrad Laforte (November 10, 1921 – September 4, 2008) was a Québécois ethnologist and librarian. He created the Catalogue de la chanson folklorique française which contains 80,000 entries.{{cite book|author1=Jean Claude Dupont|author2=Jacques Mathieu|title=Les Métiers du cuir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVTlD1w-JpcC&pg=PA245|year=1981|publisher=Presses Université Laval|isbn=978-2-7637-6936-3|page=245}}
Early life and education
Laforte was born in Kénogami. He studied in Chicoutimi, the Université Laval, and finally the Université de Montréal.
Career
Laforte studied and wrote about the origins of traditional French and French Canadian music,{{cite book|author=Royal Society of Canada|title=Proceedings and transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Déliberations et mémoires de la Société royale du Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k5szAAAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Royal Society of Canada.|page=115}}{{cite book|title=Canadian Folklore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jKPYAAAAMAAJ|volume=19|year=1997|issue = 2|publisher=Folklore Studies Association of Canada|page=139}}{{cite book|author1=James Frederick Mason|author2=Hélène Josephine Harvitt|title=The French Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j7w4AAAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=American Association of Teachers of French|page=382|isbn=9780030581717}} and worked with anthropologist Marius Barbeau to record many songs and stories that had been until then passed down orally in the culture.{{cite book|author1=Lynda Jessup|author2=Andrew Nurse|author3=Gordon Ernest Smith|title=Around and about Marius Barbeau: Modelling Twentieth-century Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=afPWAAAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Canadian Museum of Civilization|isbn=978-0-660-19775-3|pages=207–208}} Laforte's best-known work is the six volume Catalogue de la chanson folklorique française.{{cite book|title=Canadian University Music Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bS9LAAAAYAAJ|volume=3-4|year=1982|publisher=Canadian University Music Society|page=212}}
Laforte taught folklore at the University of Laval.{{cite book|title=Quarry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvd5YlKlDugC|volume=27-28|year=1978|publisher=Queen's University.|page=92}}{{cite book|author=Kenneth S. Goldstein|title=Canadian Folklore Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PKTYAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Department of Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland|page=24}} He also developed a set of criteria for classifying songs by genre.{{cite book|title=Acta Ethnographica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d64zAAAAIAAJ|volume=31-32|year=1982|publisher=Magyar Tudományos Akadémia|page=281}} In 1982 he was elected to membership in the Royal Society of Canada.{{cite journal|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/conrad-laforte-emc/|author=Gilles Potvin|title=Laforte, Conrad|journal=The Canadian Encyclopedia}} His honours include the Marius-Barbeau Medal and the Raymond-Casgrain Prize.
Works
- La chanson folklorique et les écrivains du XIXe siècle en France et au Québec, 1973.
- Le catalogue de la chanson folklorique francaise ; préf. de Luc Lacourcière , Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec, 1977.
- Menteries drôles et merveilleuses, 1978
- Survivances médiévales dans la chanson folklorique, 1981.
- Chansons strophiques, 1981.
- Chansons sur des timbres, 1983.
- Chansons folkloriques à sujet religieux, 1988.
- Poétique de la chanson traditionnelle française, 1993.
- Vision d'une societé par les chansons de tradition orale à caractère épique et tragique, 1997 (with Monique Jutras){{cite book|title=Canadian Journal for Traditional Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VN3ZAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Canadian Society for Musical Traditions|page=48}}
References
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- Jean-Nicolas De Surmont (ed.), publiés avec la collaboration de Serge Gauthier, M'amie, faites moi un bouquet… », Mélanges posthumes autour de l'œuvre de Conrad Laforte, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, Editions Charlevoix, 2011
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Category:Canadian ethnologists
Category:Université Laval alumni
Category:Université de Montréal alumni
Category:Writers from Saguenay, Quebec
Category:Canadian non-fiction writers in French