Abstract
Moving from personal “memorates” in her own “musical autobiography," to traditional song in the life of Toronto’s Italian community, the author employs both emic (insider) and etic (outsider) perspectives in this preliminary ethnomusicologic history of the group (genres, contexts, performers, means of diffusion, role of media). Several key factors account for the transformation of Italian Canadian traditions: intergenerational dynamics, biculturalism, hierarchies of prestige (currents of regionalism, dialect, and peasant traditions intersecting those of pan-Italian, national, and bourgeois culture). The rediscovery of traditional song as a means of reintegrating and revitalizing cultural identity is advocated.
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