Archive for the Category ‘News’

Grieving & Mourning III: Adjusting

Monday, September 15th, 2014

In previous blog posts (Grieving & Mourning I and II), I discussed the first two of four “tasks” or “steps” that occur as part of the grieving process: accept the…

Resources II: Popular Histories

Thursday, August 28th, 2014

Some of the most compelling information about disasters comes from “popular histories” (by “popular,” I mean that they aren’t necessarily written by academic scholars for other academics, but instead are…

Grieving & Mourning II: Working through Pain

Friday, August 15th, 2014

In a previous blog post (Grieving & Mourning I: Accepting Loss), I discussed the first of four “tasks” that occur as part of the grieving process: accept the reality of…

Grieving & Mourning I: Accepting Loss

Thursday, July 31st, 2014

In a series of blog posts, I will explore the role that disaster songs may play in the grieving process following a disaster. Naturally, this will be quite speculative as…

“Twenty-Five Miners”: What is it about?

Tuesday, July 15th, 2014

One of the songs on this website is “Twenty-Five Miners.” The Sharecroppers of Newfoundland set a poem by Father Ron MacIntyre to music. You can hear it on youtube: The…

Lac-Mégantic

Sunday, July 6th, 2014

This blog offers the opportunity to discuss disasters and songs that fall outside the Atlantic Canadian confines of the project represented on this site. The Lac-Mégantic train derailment of July…

Moncton RCMP Shootings

Thursday, June 19th, 2014

On June 4, 2014, social media lit up with unconfirmed reports of a shooter on the loose in Moncton, New Brunswick. The reports turned out to be true, and a…

Reacting to the Discovery of Songs

Monday, April 28th, 2014

Over the past few months, I’ve been delighted to receive an increasing number of visitor comments. What has been particularly interesting to me is the number of people who have…

100 Years since the Newfoundland Sealing Disasters

Tuesday, April 1st, 2014

It’s been a hundred years since the Newfoundland and Southern Cross disasters occurred, both of which inspired a significant number of songs. I have found that it is rare to…

Resources 1

Monday, March 10th, 2014

My intention is for this to be the first of a number of posts about useful resources that relate in some way to disaster songs. In this post, I introduce…