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Reconstructed nickelodeon, ancestor of the Juke-Box
1930
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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The following Quebec independent labels have catalogues in the area of songs, traditional music (folk songs), world music and country:

Amical / Apex (Starr) / Audiogram / Barclay / Bonanza / Borealis / Bouleau noir / Brunswick / Catalogne / Centre de valorisation du patrimoine vivant / Columbia / Compo (Carnaval) / Dangeville AV / Direction Records / Discord / Disques double / Disques Jouflu / Disques Mérite / Dominion / Elektra / Folk Dancer / Folkways / Gamma / Heritage / Interdisc / Justin Time / Kébec Disc / Laridaine / London / McGill University / MCA Coral / MMM (Music Multi-Montreal) / Mérite / Météor / Metro / Mille-pattes / Musi-comptoir / Musics BMG / Nôroit (book-CD) / Nuits d'Afrique / Opus / Passe-temps / Presqu'Île / Productions Guy Cloutier / Productions Serge Paré / Patrimoine / PCR / Philo / Productions Victoriaville / Radio-Canada / RCA Victor (Bluebird) / Select / Smithsonian Folkways / Son d'or / Starr / Tamanoir / Totem / UMMUS / Voyageur

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Marius Barbeau, ethnomusicologist
1940
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Starting in 1911, ethnomusicologist Marius Barbeau began collecting and recording 3000 Amerindian songs on Edison wax cylinders; between 1915 and 1930, he recorded and annotated 6700 French folk songs (this fonds is at the Museum of Civilization in Hull).

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Collection of Canadian songs
3 April 1909
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec collection

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The Brunswick label
1929
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Montreal was less responsive to jazz in the 1920s than other cities were; here the preference was for operettas and traditional music.

The Starr-Gennett and Brunswick labels in particular produced traditional music.

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Singer Mary Travers, called La Bolduc, wrote songs that became very popular.
March, 1931
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Record by Jos Bouchard, traditional violinist, on the economy Bluebird label from RCA
April, 1938
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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RCA brought a budget series to market (on the Bluebird label), reissuing records by Quebec artists; most of the other companies did the same (the Melotone, Duprex, Velvet-Tone labels).

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Ovila Légaré, singer, comedian and folklorist
1948
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Credits:
Archives nationales du Québec collection

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Ovila Légaré recorded folk songs (in particular with La Bolduc) and humour (inspired by the radio series Nazaire et Barnabé).

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Pianists Jos Brousseau and Marcel Grondin of the Montagnards laurentiens
21 May 1949
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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Radio (Radio-Canada, CHLP, CHLN, CKAC, CKVL) supported Quebec vocal music and folk songs (Les Montagnards laurentiens on CHRC, Quebec, the Quatuor Alouette live during the 1930s, and Lionel Daunais …).