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Posted By: GUEST,Heather Sparling
10-Mar-11 - 12:38 PM
Thread Name: Disastersongs.ca
Subject: Disastersongs.ca
I'm an ethnomusicologist at Cape Breton University and I'm currently working on a project examining disaster songs of Atlantic Canada. I'm working on this project with a sociologist of disaster (Joe Scanlon) and an historian (Del Muise).
We have recently posted a website chronicling our findings:
disastersongs.ca
We have begun with a case study of mining disaster songs in Nova Scotia and our next step is to start documenting ocean-based disasters, including shipwrecks and the 1982 Ocean Ranger disaster off the coast of Newfoundland.
However, there are still many gaps in our knowledge. We know about some songs but we don't always having their lyrics or a copy of a recording. Or we might know the name of a composer but nothing much else. If you can help us, we'd really appreciate it! Also, if you know of any songs we've missed, please let us know. We'd especially appreciate your feedback, stories, and questions in the associated forum.
Thanks!