Heather Sparling

Harmonizing Heritage and Deploying Data: Assessing, Improving, Linking, and Sharing Digital Gaelic Song Resources in Nova Scotia and Scotland

Principal investigators: Sparling, Heather L.

Keywords: data management; archives; digital humanities; Gaelic; music; song; databases; linked data; music encoding initiative; collections; intangible cultural heritage

Cainnt is Ceathramhan (Language and Lyrics): Enriching the Metadata and Accessibility of a Digital Gaelic Cultural Resource

Principal investigators: Sparling, Heather L.

Keywords: Gaelic; Nova Scotia; digital humanities; folklore; songs; language revitalization; Celtic studies

Cainnt is Ceathramhan (Language and Lyrics): Enriching the Metadata and Accessibility of a Digital Gaelic Cultural Resource

Principal investigators: Sparling, Heather L.

Keywords: Gaelic; Nova Scotia; digital humanities; folklore; songs; language revitalization; Celtic studies

Musical Traditions

Principal investigators: Sparling, Heather

Keywords: ethnomusicology; traditional music; Nova Scotia; vernacular dance; Gaelic; song; language; language revitalization; heritage language; memory; memorialization; dictionary; digital humanities; competition

Creating, performing, and writing about music: building capacity among music and dance scholars

Principal investigators: Sparling, Heather L.

Keywords: music; writing; composition; knowledge mobilization; performance studies; North Atlantic; fiddling; vernacular dance

Language in lyrics: a collection of Nova Scotia Gaelic songs

Principal investigators: Sparling, Heather L.

Keywords: song; database; music; corpus; language; Nova Scotia; Gaelic; digitization; collection; lyrics; repository

Trans-Atlantic transactions: connecting through the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention 2015

Principal investigators: McDonald, Christopher J.

Keywords: international security; Canadian Foreign Policy; defence policy; female leadership

Dancing across the diaspora: Style, context and practice of three Canadian step dance styles

Principal investigators: Harris Walsh, Kristin M.

Canary in the mine a museum exhibit of Nova Scotia mining disaster songs

Principal investigators: Sparling, Heather L.

Keywords: disaster songs; Nova Scotia; intangible cultural heritage; museum exhibits

Canada Research Chair in Musical Traditions

Principal investigators: Sparling, Heather L

Keywords: music, traditions, sustainability, communities, scottish gaelic song, cape breton, scotland, atlantic canada, children's music, disaster songs, dance, archives, work songs, industrial culture