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Indigenous song, classical music and cultural appropriation
For Radio 3's Canada 150 season, Music Matters investigates how classical composers of the 20th century sometimes used the songs and music of the indigenous people of Canada without realising the significance they had.
Tom Service talks to Dylan Robinson, a professor in indigenous arts, Marion Newman, a classical mezzo of indigenous descent and Robert Cramm, an expert on the Canadian composer Harry Somers.
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