It takes the average reader 8 hours and 23 minutes to read The Forgotten Songs of the Newfoundland Outports by Anna Kearney Guigné
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In 1951, musician Kenneth Peacock (1922–2000) secured a contract from the National Museum of Canada (today the Canadian Museum of History) to collect folksongs in Newfoundland. As the province had recently joined Confederation, the project was deemed a goodwill gesture, while at the same time adding to the Museum’s meager Anglophone archival collections. Between 1951 and 1961, over the course of six field visits, Peacock collected 766 songs and melodies from 118 singers in 38 communities, later publishing two-thirds of this material in a three-volume collection, Songs of the Newfoundland...
The Forgotten Songs of the Newfoundland Outports by Anna Kearney Guigné is 488 pages long, and a total of 125,904 words.
This makes it 165% the length of the average book. It also has 154% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 28 minutes to read The Forgotten Songs of the Newfoundland Outports aloud.
The Forgotten Songs of the Newfoundland Outports is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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