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CJCB Radio's Cape Breton Songs Contest (1949–1952) solicited new lyric submissions on local themes set to popular songs of the day. Successful entries were recorded and became part of the station's airplay rotation. The songs would often playfully address contemporary concerns in light of a desire for greater cosmopolitanism. One such theme was the still-nascent reframing of Nova Scotia as "Scottish," a once maligned ethnic heritage now considered the inherent personification of place. As a means to negotiate this new interpretation of Scottishness, songwriters turned to American pop songs doing similar identity work for the Irish American.
Ian Brodie (Sun,) studied this question.