Heather Sparling
@CBFraoch
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Gaelic-, French-, but mostly English-speaking ethnomusicologist researching disaster songs, Gaelic songs, and step dance. Nothing else about me is as cool.
Sydney, NS
Joined March 2010
RT @MusicMedHistory: Happy new year! Come along for our first Wednesday Seminar of 2024 on January 17th, when Dr Heather Sparling @CBFraoc…
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RT @DonnieCalabrese: Here's a statue of my dad trying to enter the wifi password without his glasses on.
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RT @DonnieCalabrese: A brilliant, lucid, and complex argument from my friend in the CBU English department in today's @capebretonpost. Stay…
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RT @DonnieCalabrese: 4. As with every strike, the richest people accuse the workers of being greedy. And at CBU, the bosses are the 1% of t…
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RT @DonnieCalabrese: 3. The CBU admin guy who said he is overpaid because "that's how she goes" also CBU faculty are among the highest paid…
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RT @DonnieCalabrese: 2. In recent yas, CBU's admin has been on steroids. Faculty growth is anemic by comparison.
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RT @JazzHoover: Not CBU security telling students they cannot have a peaceful silent protest inside because of 'congestion' in the hallways…
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RT @jason_loxton: CBU's Board of Governors meeting today. Student reps/faculty excluded. Students also told they can't hold protest in hall…
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RT @DonnieCalabrese: Students who planned a SILENT and PEACEFUL protest outside the CBU Board of Governors meet today have been BANNED from…
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RT @katemckenna8: I’ve watched a lot of live hits today, but this might be the best demonstration of the Magdalen Islands winds so far 😂 Po…
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The Society for Ethnomusicology has just published a website documenting US music-making and the lives of musicians during the pandemic.
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Did you miss my talk, "Death Culture, Vernacular Memorialization, and Atlantic Canadian Disaster Songs," back in March? It's available on YouTube!
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Wondering if anyone is at the pop up Covid testing site in Sydney, NS today? What’s the line like?
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@Monika_Dutt We echo The Good Place and Brooklyn 99. We are also making our way thru all Star Treks. Definitely recommend. There are some very thought-provoking episodes.
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For Black history month, Valerie MacDonald tells the story of her experience as an Afro-Nova Scotian growing up in Springhill, NS, and about her father, Maurice Ruddick, who miraculously survived the 1958 Springhill mining disaster.
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Looking to disaster management research to figure out how to help the cultural industries to recover from Covid-19.
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