Music in Canada
Last updated: 17.12.19
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Printed: 2006 Author: Dr Elaine Kellor
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN:  
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Capturing Landscape and Diversity
Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher's blurb:
Kwakwaka'wakw welcome songs, an aria from Joseph Quesnel's 1808 opera Lucas et Cécile, rubbaboos (a combination of elements from First Peoples, French, and English music), the Tin Pan Alley hits of Shelton Brooks, and the contemporary work of Claude Vivier and Blue Rodeo all dance together in Canada's rich musical heritage. Elaine Keillor offers an unprecedented history of Canadian musical expressions and their relationship to Canada's great cultural and geographic diversity.
A survey of "musics" in Canada - the country's multiplicity of musical genres and rich heritage - is complemented by forty-three vignettes highlighting topics such as Inuit throat games, the music of k.d. lang, and orchestras in Victoria. Music in Canada illuminates the past but also looks to the future to examine the context within which Canadian music began and continues to develop.
A CD by the author of previously unrecorded Canadian music is included.
Review
"A prodigious effort representing a deep knowledge of all aspects of Canadian music." Gordon E. Smith, School of Music, Queen's University "This is an important book that goes significantly beyond anything yet published on Canadian music." David Gregory, Centre for Global and Social Analysis, University of Athabaska
Personal remarks:
I am especially proud of my copy of this work which was very kindly given to me by the author herself. It is indeed an authoritative and scholarly work (191 pages of this 512-page book are given to appendices and notes!). I am impressed that one of my heroes, Stan Rogers graces two pages. Ragtime too is not left out - Canadian ragtimers are covered by some 4 pages with R. Nathaniel Dett having pride of place. William H. Hodgins, G.W. Adams, Willie Eckstein, Harry Thomas, Jean-Baptiste Lafreniere and Shelton Brooks all get mentions. Joseph F. Lamb is also listed due to his Canadian connections.
All-in-all, this is great browsing book with much to dip into