Experience: Marcia Ostashewski

Marcia Ostashewski: Cape Breton Universitys Marcia Ostashewski plots out the immigrant experience in song, studying how the trials and successes of everyday life are woven into the melodies, according to The Chronicle Herald. Their experience is a process thats wonderful and also involves its own traumas and shocks and challenges and these songs of immigration tell those stories and you cant look at them just as words that you can translate theres a layering of more meaning in that, Ostashewski said Thursday and The ethnomusicologist has dug into how people preserve their culture through dance and song, focusing primarily on the Eastern European communities in Cape Breton. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.