MacKinnon, Richard;
MacKinnon, Lachlan;
(2015)
Travelling in Time to Cape Breton Island in the 1920s: Protest Songs, Murals and Island Identity.
London Journal of Canadian Studies
, 30
(1)
pp. 39-63.
10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2015v30.004.
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Abstract
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. ...' 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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Travelling in Time to Cape Breton Island in the 1920s: Protest Songs, Murals and Island Identity |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2015v30.004 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2015v30.004 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475678 |
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