Vincent Michaud-Laine

I'm a Phd who works around semiotics of music and dance with a speciality on Gaelic cultural domain. I try to help people develop their own opinions and music choices, and access to historical sources themselves, in a sound and grounded desacralized way. I debunk strong clichés, often based on modern personal (and lets face it commercial) practices but presented as historical (or worse: ethnical)  "truth" because they generate a lot of tensions in the musical world and prevent people from enjoying and creating their own music without the pressure of having to conform or fight such frivolous opinions. That does not always make me maaarvelously popular but never mind, if I managed to liberate a player, empower an enthusiast or start a vocation, it's worth it any day of the week...
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I have been teaching harp and Highland Dance for more than 20 years.