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Acadian Acadian

  • Babineau, René. 1984. Brief History of Acadie, 1604-1984. Richibouctou: R. Babineau.
  • Chiasson, Fr. Anselme with Fr. Daniel Boudreau. 1943, 1945, 1946, 1972, 1979. Chansons d’Acadie. 11 vols. Moncton: Editions des Aboiteau.
  • Chiasson, Fr. Anselme. 1986. Chéticamp: histoire et traditions acadiennes. St. John’s: Breakwater.
  • Doucet, Clive. 1999. Notes From Exile: On Being Acadian. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
  • Donovan, K. 2002. After Midnight We Danced Until Daylight: Music, Song and Dance in Cape Breton, 1713-1758. Acadiensis 32: 3-28.
  • Krause, Eric, Corbin, Carol, and O’Shea, William. Aspects of Louisbourg: Essays on the History of an 18th-Century French Community. Cape Breton University Press, 1995.

Mi'kmaq Mi'kmaq

  • Browner, Tara (ed). 2009. Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Diamond, Beverley, Sam Cronk, and Franziska von Rosen. 1994. Visions of sound: Musical instruments of First Nations communities in Northeastern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Francis, Bernie. 1968. Ben Christmas: Chants and Customs. Cape Breton’s Magazine 25: 9-12.
  • Howard, James H. 1965. The St. Anne’s Day celebration of the Micmac Indians, 1962. Museum News (South Dakota Museum) 26(3-4): 5-14.
  • Hutton, Elizabeth Ann. 1961. The Micmac Indians of Nova Scotia to 1834. Halifax: Dalhousie University
  • Joe, Rita, and Lesley Choyce (eds.). 1997. The Mi’kmaq Anthology. E. Lawrencetown: Pottersfield Press.
  • Joe, Rita. 1999. We are the dreamers: recent and early poetry. Wreck Cove: Breton Books.
  • —. 1996. Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi’kmaq Poet. Charlottetown: Ragweed Press.
  • —. 1991. L’nu And Indians We’re Called.Charlottetown: Ragweed Press.
  • —. 1988. Song of Eskasoni. Charlottetown: Ragweed Press.
  • —. 1978. Poems of Rita Joe Halifax: Abanaki Press.
  • Mi’kmaq Chants. 1995. Denny Family. Kewniq Recordings Productions/Spectrum Records SRC505.
  • Paul, Daniel. 2000. We Were Not The savages: A Mi’kmaq Perspective on the Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations. Halifax: Fernwood.
  • Prins, Harald E.L. 1996. The Mi’kmaq Resistance, Accommodation, and Cultural Aurvival. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Pub.
  • Rand, Silas Tertius. 1894/1971. Legends of the Micmac. New York and London: Longmans, Green, and Co. & New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation.
  • Sable, Trudy, and Julia Sable. 2007. The Mi’kmaq of Eastern Canada: Who We Are. Native Dance, Elaine Keillor (ed.) et al. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
  • —. The Mi’kmaq of Eastern Canada: Our Dance Stories. Native Dance, Elaine Keillor (ed.) et al. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
  • —. The Mi’kmaq of Eastern Canada: Why We Dance. Native Dance, Elaine Keillor (ed.) et al. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
  • —. The Mi’kmaq of Eastern Canada: Traditional Dances. Native Dance, Elaine Keillor (ed.) et al. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
  • —. The Mi’kmaq of Eastern Canada: Our Dances Today. Native Dance, Elaine Keillor (ed.) et al. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
  • Sable, Trudy. 1998. Multiple Layers of Meaning in the Mi’kmaw Serpent Dance. In Papers of the 28th Algonquian Conference. University of Manitoba: 329-340.
  • Schmidt, David L. and Murdena Marshall. 1995. Mi’kmaq hierogyphic prayers: Readings in North America’s first Indigenous script. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing.
  • Smith, Gordon. 1994. Lee Cremo: Narratives About a Micmac Fiddler. In Beverley Diamond and Robert Witmer (eds.) Canadian Music: Issues of Hegemony and Identity: 541-56. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
  • —, and Kevin Alstrup. 1995. Words and music by Rita Joe: Dialogic ethnomusicology. Canadian Journal For Traditional Music: 23.
  • Tulk, Janice Esther. 2008. “Our Strength Is Ourselves”: Identity, Status and Cultural Revitalization Among the Mi’kmaq in Newfoundland. PhD Diss. Memorial University.
  • —. 2007. Cultural Revitalization and Mi’kmaq Music-making: Three Drum Groups. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 22(1): 259-86.
  • —. 2005. Commodification of Native American Spirituality: ‘Native American’ tarot and divination cards. Culture & Tradition 27: 37-55.
  • —. 2004. Awakening to Medicine Dream: Contemporary Native Music from Alaska with Newfoundland Roots. Canadian Folk Music Bulletin 38(3): 1-10.
  • —. 2004. In Review: Music of the Eastern Eagle Singers. Culture & Tradition 26: 147-49.
  • —. 2003. Medicine Dream: Contemporary Native Music and Issues of Identity. Master’s Thesis, University of Alberta.
  • Usmiani, Renate (coordinator). 1995. Kelusultiek: original women’s voices of Atlantic Canada. Halifax: Institute for the Study of Women, Mount Saint Vincent University.
  • von Rosen, Franziska. 1998. Music, visual art, stories: Conversations with a community of Micmac artists. PhD Diss. Brown University.
  • Whitehead, Ruth Holmes, and Nova Scotia Museum. 1988. Six Micmac Stories. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum.
  • Whitehead, Ruth Holmes, and Harold McGee. 1983. The Micmac: How Their Ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Ago. Halifax: Nimbus.
  • Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. 1982. Micmac Quillwork: Micmac Indian techniques of porcupine quill decoration, 1600-1950. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum.
  • —. 1980. Elitekey: Micmac material culture from 1600 AD to the present. Halifax: Nova Scotia Museum.
  • Wli-nuelewi: Mi’kmaw Christmas Music. 2001. Se’t A’newey Choir, Bernie Francis, Membertou Elementary, Eskasoni Trio, Eskasoni Elementary, Eel Ground Elementary, Sister Dorothy Moore. Atlantic Canada’s First Nation Help Desk & Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey.

Gaelic Gaelic

  • Campbell, John Lorne. 1990. Songs Remembered in Exile. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press.
  • Caplan, Ronald, ed. 2006. Talking Cape Breton Music: Conversations with People Who Love and Make the Music. Wreck Cove, NS: Breton Books.
  • Creighton, Helen, and Calum MacLeod. 1979. Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia Ottawa: National Museums of Canada
  • Dembling, Jonathan. 2005. You Play It as You Would Sing It: Cape Breton, Scottishness, and the Means of Cultural Production. In Transatlantic Scots, ed. Celeste Ray, 180-197. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
  • Dunn, Charles. 1991 [1953]. Highland Settler: A Portrait of the Scottish Gael in Cape Breton and Eastern Nova Scotia. Wreck Cove, Nova Scotia: Breton Books.
  • Fergusson, Donald A. 1977. Beyond the Hebrides. Halifax: D.A. Fergusson.
  • MacDonald, Dan Alex. 1986. Songs From Framboise: collected by his daughter Eunice Lively. Framboise, NS: privately published.
  • MacDonald, Martha. 1988. The Cape Breton Ceilidh. Culture & Tradition 12: 76-85.
  • MacDonald, Marilyn. 1988-89. Milling Frolics on the North Shore: A Look at the Past, Present and Future. Sydney, Cape Breton. Beaton Institute: Reports – Culture.
  • MacDonell, Margaret. 1982. The Emigrant Experience: Songs of Highland Emigrants in North America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Pease, Thomas H. 2006. Gaelic Music of Cape Breton Island: The Last Fifteen Years. Notes 63/2: 401-417.
  • Rankin, Effie. 2004. As a’ Bhràighe/Beyond the Braes: The Gaelic Songs of Allan the Ridge MacDonald, 1794-1868. Sydney, NS: University College of Cape Breton Press.
  • Roden, Christina. 1998. Mary Jane Lamond – Cape Breton’s Reluctant Gaelic Diva. Accessed May 31 2010. Available from RootsWorld.com.
  • Shaw, John. 1992-93. Language, Music and Local Aesthetics: Views from Gaeldom and Beyond. Scottish Language 11/12: 37-64.
  • Shaw, John, ed. 2000. Brìgh an Òrain. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
  • Sparling, Heather. 2008. Categorically Speaking: Towards a Theory of (Musical) Genre in Cape Breton Gaelic Culture. Ethnomusicology 52/3: 401-25.
  • —. 2008. Grist for the Tourist Mill: Tourists in Gaelic Milling Frolics in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In Refereed Papers from the Third International Small Islands Culture Conference, ed. Irené Novaczek, 94-100: Small Island Cultures Research Initiative.
  • —. 2007. Transmission Processes in Cape Breton Gaelic Song Culture. In Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology: Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present, ed. Anna Hoefnagels and Gordon E. Smith, 13-26. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • —. 2005. Song Genres, Cultural Capital and Social Distinctions in Gaelic Cape Breton. PhD Diss. York University.
  • —. 2003. “Music is Language and Language is Music”: Language Attitudes and Musical Choices in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Ethnologies 25/2: 145-171.
  • —. 2000. Puirt-a-Beul: An Ethnographic Study of Mouth Music in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. MA Thesis, York University.
  • —. 2000. Mitigating or Marketing Culture? Promoting Mouth Music in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal for Traditional Music 27: 1-9.

Mining Mining

  • Cahill, Barry. 1996. Howe (1835), Dixon (1920) and McLachlan (1923): Comparative Perspectives on the Legal History of Sedition. University of New Brunswick Law Journal 45: 281-307.
  • Comish, Shaun. 1993. The Westray Tragedy: A Miner’s Story. Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing.
  • Jobb, Dean. 1994. Calculated Risk: Greed, Politics and the Westray Tragedy. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing.
  • Frank, David. 1999. J.B. McLachlan: A Biography. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company.
  • Frank, David, and John Manley. 1992. The Sad March to the Right: J. B. McLachlan’s Resignation from the Communist Party of Canada, 1936. Labour/Le Travail 30(0): 115-134. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
  • Korson, George. 1965. Minstrels of the Mine Patch. Hatboro, Pa.: Folklore Associates, Inc.
  • Korson, George. 1964. Coal Dust on the Fiddle. Hatboro, Pa.: Folklore Associates, Inc.
  • Mellor, John. 1983. The Company Store: James Bryson McLachlan and the Cape Breton coal miners, 1900-1925 Toronto: Doubleday
  • The Men of the Deeps Songbook. 1975. Waterloo, Ontario: Waterloo Music company 1975. Available at The Beaton Institute: PAM 773.
  • MacDonald, Alphonse. 1935. Cape Breton Songster. Sydney, NS: n.p.
  • MacEachern, Ronald. 1979. Report from Cape Breton. Canadian Folk Music Society Newsletter 14(1): 10-11.
  • —. 1978. Collecting in Cape Breton Island. Canadian Folk Music Society Newsletter 13(3): 7-10.
  • —, (ed). 1977. Songs of Cape Breton. Glace Bay.
  • MacGillivary, Allister. 1985. Cape Breton Song Collection. Sydney: Sea Cape Music, Ltd.
  • MacKinnon, Richard. 2008. Protest Song and Verse in Cape Breton Island. Ethnologies 30(2): 33-71.
  • McCawley, Stuart. 1929. Cape Breton Come-All-Ye. Glace Bay: Brodie Printing Service.
  • Manley, John. 1992. Preaching the Red Stuff: J.B. McLachlan, Communism, and the Cape Breton Miners, 1922-1935. Labour/Le Travail 30(0): 65-114. Retrieved April 27, 2010
  • O’Donnell, John C. 2001. Music as an Expression of Culture in the Mining Communities of Cape Breton Island. Canadian Issues Aug/Sept: 29.
  • —. 1993. Join the Union or You’ll Die. Canadian folklore Canadien 14(2).
  • —. 1992. And Now The Fields Are Green: A Collection of Coal Mining Songs in Canada. Sydney, NS: University College of Cape Breton Press.
  • —. 1988. Contributions of American Folklorists to Research in Canadian Coal Mining Songs. In Dorothy E. Moore and James Morrison (eds.) Work, Ethnicity, and Oral History: International Education Centre Issues in Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Series, No. 1
  • —. 1985. Industrial Songs as Part of a Culture. International Journal of Music Education 6(1): 7-11.
  • —. 1985. The Men of the Deeps in Kosovo. Nova Scotia Choral Federation Newsletter 24(3).
  • —. 1985. Towards a Collection of Coal Mining Songs in Canada. Canadian Folk Music Journal 6(1): 7-11.
  • —. 1984. Blackleg Miners in Cape Breton. Canada Folk Bulletin 18(3): 1-4.
  • —. 1984. Labour’s Cultural Impact on the Community. Canadian Folk Music Journal.
  • Thomas, Amby, and Ron MacEachern. 1979. Songs and stories from Deep Cove, Cape Breton. Sydney, College of Cape Breton Press.