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Some of Tim Rogers's Writing on Canadian Railway Music

This is a list of some writing about railway music over the years. Click on the underlined titles to see the article.

Canadian railroad songs. Canadian Folk Music Bulletin de musique folklorique, 1982, 16.2, 6-20 (pdf file).
Canadian railroad songs: Part 2. Canadian Folk Music Bulletin de musique folklorique, 1982, 16.2, 13-27 (pdf file).
Song Notes and background from Songs of the Iron Trail
A preliminary comparison of American and Canadian railway song traditions. Paper read at the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, November, 2007, Edmonton, AB (pdf file). Click here to see the PowePoint slides used with this talk.
Canadian railway songs. web blog, January, 2008.
Hearing a missing voice: Chinese railway labourers. Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne, 2008, 42.1, 13-20 (pdf file).
Celebrating the CPR with music. Momentum, 2008, Fall, 24-25 (pdf file).
Bill Miner in song. Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne, 2008, 42.2, 9-20 (pdf file).
Postscript to Bill Miner in song. Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne, in press (pdf file).

If you have and comments or questions about these paper please email me at tbrogers@ucalgary.ca

Some other papers about music:

Is there an Alberta folk music? Canadian Folk Music Journal, 1978, 6, 23-29.
The folksong traditions of the 1930s. In D. Francis & H. Ganzevoort (Eds.): The dirty thirties in prairie Canada. Vancouver: Tantalus, 1980 (coauthored with Patty Rogers).
The Southern Cross: A case study in the ballad as history. Canadian Folk Music Journal,1982, 10, 12-22.
Music and neuropsychology. Notes, 8, 1983, 9-16.
The Strawberry Roan in Alberta: A study of regional identity. Prairie Forum, 12,1987, 75-93.
The time's right for singing them old country songs: A history of country music in Alberta. Glenbow, 1988, 8, 6-9.
Country music bands in Canada during the 1950s: A comparative survey. In R. Witmer (Ed.). Ethnomusicology in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990.
Images of the Canadian West in the settlement era as expressed in song texts of the time. Prairie Forum, 18, 1993, 257-267 (coauthored with Doug Francis).
Roll on, Columbia, Roll On. East Kootenay Environmental Society Newsletter, 2000, 14(7), 4-5. Also published in Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne. 2005, 38:4, 11-12.
“Hard, Hard Times” for the mad cow. Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne. 2003, 37:4, p. 15.