Travelling in Time to Cape Breton Island in the 1920s: Protest Songs, Murals and Island Identity
Islands are places that foster a unique sense of place-attachment and community identity among their populations. Scholarship focusing on the distinctive values, attitudes and perspectives of ‘island people’ from around the world reveals the layers of meaning that are attached to island life. Lowent...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:ea565f059ff04932a16f3951208da2ed 2023-05-15T15:46:42+02:00 Travelling in Time to Cape Breton Island in the 1920s: Protest Songs, Murals and Island Identity MacKinnon Richard MacKinnon Lachlan 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2015v30.004 https://doaj.org/article/ea565f059ff04932a16f3951208da2ed EN eng UCL Press https://uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2015v30.004 https://doaj.org/toc/2397-0928 doi:10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2015v30.004 2397-0928 https://doaj.org/article/ea565f059ff04932a16f3951208da2ed The London Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol 30 (2015) America E11-143 article 2015 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2015v30.004 2023-02-26T01:33:25Z Islands are places that foster a unique sense of place-attachment and community identity among their populations. Scholarship focusing on the distinctive values, attitudes and perspectives of ‘island people’ from around the world reveals the layers of meaning that are attached to island life. Lowenthal writes: ‘Islands are fantasized as antitheses of the all-engrossing gargantuan mainstream-small, quiet, untroubled, remote from the busy, crowded, turbulent everyday scene. In reality, most of them are nothing like that. …’ 1 1 D. Lowenthal, ‘Islands, Lovers and Others’, The Geographical Review 97 (2007): 203. Islands, for many people, are ‘imagined places’ in our increasingly globalised world; the perceptions of island culture and reality often differ. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in eastern North America, a locale with a rich history of class struggle surrounding its former coal and steel industries, provides an excellent case study for the ways that local history, collective memory and cultural expression might combine to combat the ‘untroubled fantasy’ that Lowenthal describes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Breton Island Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Breton Island ENVELOPE(141.383,141.383,-66.800,-66.800) London Journal of Canadian Studies |
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Islands are places that foster a unique sense of place-attachment and community identity among their populations. Scholarship focusing on the distinctive values, attitudes and perspectives of ‘island people’ from around the world reveals the layers of meaning that are attached to island life. Lowenthal writes: ‘Islands are fantasized as antitheses of the all-engrossing gargantuan mainstream-small, quiet, untroubled, remote from the busy, crowded, turbulent everyday scene. In reality, most of them are nothing like that. …’ 1 1 D. Lowenthal, ‘Islands, Lovers and Others’, The Geographical Review 97 (2007): 203. Islands, for many people, are ‘imagined places’ in our increasingly globalised world; the perceptions of island culture and reality often differ. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in eastern North America, a locale with a rich history of class struggle surrounding its former coal and steel industries, provides an excellent case study for the ways that local history, collective memory and cultural expression might combine to combat the ‘untroubled fantasy’ that Lowenthal describes. |
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