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Great Big Sea, Empire, and the Art of the Protest Song

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Jesse Conlang

It’s Canada Day, which is an extremely weird “national” holiday. Sure, most of English Canada is waving flags celebrating “Canada’s Birthday!” It’s hardly important what that means specifically, but the anthropomorphication of a nation state is key. Technically, it commemorates … Continue reading →

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