Heather Sparling

Gaelic-, French-, but mostly English-speaking ethnomusicologist researching disaster songs, Gaelic songs, and step dance. Nothing else about me is as cool.

[Music, Medicine and History Network @MusicMedHistory]

Happy new year!
Come along for our first Wednesday Seminar of 2024 on January 17th, when Dr Heather Sparling @CBFraoch will join us to talk about her fascinating research into Canadian Atlantic Disaster songs.

Zoom link & more info here: https://t.co/VPdufx3Etg

[Orff Nova Scotia @orffns]

Oh my goodness, we are EXCITED! On Saturday, May 27th, come join us and learn all about how to incorporate "Puirt à beul - Tunes from the Mouth" into your classroom with Heather Sparling. For more information or to register, please visit the main page at https://t.co/9hJaRbgr3H

[Donald Calabrese 🦩 @DonnieCalabrese]

Here's a statue of my dad trying to enter the wifi password without his glasses on.

[Donald Calabrese 🦩 @DonnieCalabrese]

A brilliant, lucid, and complex argument from my friend in the CBU English department in today's @capebretonpost. Stay tuned for online version! @cbufa

[SMUFU @smufu.bsky.social @SMUFacultyUnion]

Good employers pay their employees fair wages.

#SMUStrike #StandWithSMUFU

[Donald Calabrese 🦩 @DonnieCalabrese]

4. As with every strike, the richest people accuse the workers of being greedy. And at CBU, the bosses are the 1% of the 1%.

[Donald Calabrese 🦩 @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 in NS. It's a baffling statement.

[Donald Calabrese 🦩 @DonnieCalabrese]

2. In recent yas, CBU's admin has been on steroids. Faculty growth is anemic by comparison.

[jasonloxton.bsky.social @jason_loxton]

CBU's Board of Governors meeting today. Student reps/faculty excluded. Students also told they can't hold protest in hall outside... or **anywhere inside** CBU b/c of 'safety concerns'. [Funny didn't apply to other student gatherings, e.g., job fair last year, performances.]

[Donald Calabrese 🦩 @DonnieCalabrese]

Students who planned a SILENT and PEACEFUL protest outside the CBU Board of Governors meet today have been BANNED from corridors--effectively banning the protest.

It is a disgrace.

Our job is to educate the next generation of leaders, and admin's job is to cower from them.

[Heather Sparling @CBFraoch]

@JazzHoover @cbufa Absolutely disgraceful approach to a peaceful student protest.

[Kate McKenna @katemckenna8]

I’ve watched a lot of live hits today, but this might be the best demonstration of the Magdalen Islands winds so far 😂 Posted by Sven Meier, reposted with his permission.

[Heather Sparling @CBFraoch]

The Society for Ethnomusicology has just published a website documenting US music-making and the lives of musicians during the pandemic. https://t.co/ei0BVupgeV

[Heather Sparling @CBFraoch]

Did you miss my talk, "Death Culture, Vernacular Memorialization, and Atlantic Canadian Disaster Songs," back in March? It's available on YouTube! https://t.co/IWpbQEKmnH

[Heather Sparling @CBFraoch]

Wondering if anyone is at the pop up Covid testing site in Sydney, NS today? What’s the line like?

[Heather Sparling @CBFraoch]

@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.

[Heather Sparling @CBFraoch]

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.

https://t.co/NlDZ547ue4

[Heather Sparling @CBFraoch]

@adamcdyoung Pretty sure that you risk messy explosions with anything other than water.

[Heather Sparling @CBFraoch]

Looking to disaster management research to figure out how to help the cultural industries to recover from Covid-19.

https://t.co/U00dinsWDu

[Heather Sparling @CBFraoch]

Dr. Andrew Lynk writes songs to cope with the stress of his job. It's not so different from the reasons that many people write songs in response to disasters. #disastersongs https://t.co/qJCnxRZ88p