Ringing In the Common Love of Good: The United Farmers of Ontario, 1916–1926 by Kerry Badgley (review)

HUMANITIES 301 of musical analysis that have been applied to European classical music. Part 2, >Structure in Kebyar,= ranges from an historical overview of gamelan genres to scrupulously detailed, mainly Western-based analysis of melodies, different kinds of ornamentation, drum patterns, form, and composition. Tenzer concludes that much of the momentum and interest of Balinese music lies in contrasts between, for example, movement and stasis, continuity and disruption, symmetry and asymmetry, fixed and unfixed melodic elaboration, and cyclic and non-cyclic passages. Kebyar=s frequent stylistic and melodic quotations from older gamelan genres also provide a great deal of musical interest, particularly to informed Balinese audiences. Part 3, >Kebyar in Bali and Abroad,= concentrates on one well-known Kebyar piece,=Wilet Manyura,= composed in 1982 by the renowned Wayan Sinti (who taught both Tenzer and me). Here Tenzer=s imposition of Western concepts onto Balinese music is arguably taken to the extreme by directly comparing aspects of >Wilet Manyura= with sections from a Mozart String Quartet, a blues piece, and symphonies by Lutoslowski and Ives. As well, the social and musical comparisons made between Vienna in the 1780s and Denpasar in the 1980s and equating Ives=s recollections of multiple brass bands in the town square during his boyhood with Sinti=s experience of many gamelans playing concurrently at open-air ceremonies are, like the cross-cultural musical parallels, carefully selected surface analogies made without full consideration of deeper contextual meaning. Nevertheless, overall Tenzer=s book is brilliant, scholarly, well organized, eloquently and clearly written, and masterful in its attention to detail. Moreover, the nearly one hundred pages of musical transcriptions which correspond to the CD recordings give the reader an aural and visual experience unprecedented in the literature so far. It will serve as an invaluable resource for a wide range of musicians, composers, and scholars. I am sure that Colin McPhee would have found it a fascinating continuation and conclusion to the story of twentieth-century Balinese music that he began to compile in the 1930s. (ANNETTE SANGER) Kerry Badgley. Ringing In the Common Love of Good: The United Farmers of Ontario, 1916B1926 McGill-Queen=s University Press. xii, 302. $55.00 Ontario voters have twice entrusted their province to third party governments . Both experiments ended after a single term. The most recent adventure, with Bob Rae and the NDP, ended in the neo-liberalism of Mike Harris=s so-called >common sense revolution=; but Kerry Badgeley addresses the earlier 1919B23 Farmer-Labour government of Ernest Drury. Or, as Badgeley would prefer, he addresses the people who helped elect that government. Dismissing the work of those who have focused on the leaders of the United Farmers of Ontario, Badgeley promises to reach down 302 LETTERS IN CANADA 2000 to the UFO membership in Lambton, Simcoe, and Lanark counties who, in the spirit of agrarian populism, controlled the movement. His results are not wholly convincing. His three chosen counties are conveniently spread across southern Ontario and vary in their farm economies, but their selection, instead of neighbouring counties, is not really explained. Apart from the few UFO clubs whose minutes and records have survived, Badgeley is often reduced to finding his rank-and-file members among those who shared their views with the Farmers= Sun or local newspapers. No doubt the opinions of letter-writers and rural columnists were echoed along the concession roads of rural Ontario, but most of the people Badgley disinters from UFO minute books and small town newspapers were leaders too, if at a lower pinnacle than Drury, J.J. Morrison, or W.C. Good. And the result of their contradictory desires would probably have been close to anarchy, an outcome the author seems to favour more than most Ontarians, then or now. Badgeley=s problem in identifying UFO members reflects the lack of a research base for Ontario local history that competent local historians have created in Britain, Quebec, and some western provinces. Badgeley has limited success in reaching the rank-and-file UFO and tries to hide his relative failure by abusing other Ontario historians of his period for their preoccupation with the leadership instead of the membership, without improving greatly on their...