Conrad Laforte (November 10, 1921 – September 4, 2008) was a Québécois ethnologist and librarian.
He created the Catalogue de la chanson folklorique française which contains 80,000 entries.
Laforte studied and wrote about the origins of traditional French and French Canadian music,[2][3][4] and worked with anthropologist Marius Barbeau to record many songs and stories that had been until then passed down orally in the culture.
[5] Laforte's best-known work is the six volume Catalogue de la chanson folklorique française.
[7][8] He also developed a set of criteria for classifying songs by genre.