Nicole Beaudry Print Email

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After classical studies at the Basile-Moreau College, Nicole studied musicology at McGill University and anthropology at Laval University before turning to ethnomusicology. Her ethnomusicological research includes the inventory and analysis of drum rhythms in Haitian voodoo, in collaboration with the drummer Georges Rodriguez (1979-80); the transcription and presentation of Cree hunting songs from Chisasibi, in the Quebec Arctic based on recordings made 1968-9 by Richard Preston; and the study 1987- of music and traditional games of the Athapascans of the Northwest Territories. Her field trips include a study of the Inuit in Cape Dorset, NWT (1974, 1975, 1978), in Ivujivik, Que (1978, 1980), in southwestern Alaska (1980-1), and in Inukjuak, Que (1984), and of the Dene tribes located at Tulı́t'a (then Fort Norman), Délı̨nę (then Fort Franklin) and Fort Good Hope (1988, 1989, 1990).