| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cultural studies series |
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Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
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| Contents |
"The Pleasure Is Exquisite but Violent": The Imaginary Geography of Niagara Falls in the Nineteenth Century -- Aboriginal Cultural Tourism in Canada -- Laura Secord Meets the Candyman: The Image of Laura Secord in Popular Culture -- Canada Post's Le petite liseur (The young reader): Framing a Reproduction -- Dilemmas of Definition -- TELEVISION -- Reading Canadian "Popular" Television: The Case of E.N.G. -- Two Lawyers and an Issue: Reconstructing Quebec's "Nation" in A nous deux! -- Straight Up and Youth Television: Navigating Dreams without Nationhood -- Popularizing History: The Valour and the Horror -- MUSIC -- In the Great Midwestern Hardware Store: The Seventies Triumph in English-Canadian Rock Music -- Reelin' 'n' Rockin': Genre-Bending and Boundary-Crossing in Canada's "East Coast Sound" -- Forceful Nuance and Stompin' Tom -- "It's My Nature": The Discourse of Experience and Black Canadian Music -- "Cowboyography": Matter and Manner in the Songs of Ian Tyson -- SPORTS -- Canada, the Olympics and the Ray-Ban Man -- Hockey as Canadian Popular Culture: Team Canada 1972, Television and the Canadian Identity |
| Summary |
Sixteen essays, written by specialists from many fields, grapple with the problem of a popular culture that is not very popular - but is seen by most as vital to the body politic, whether endangered by globalization or capable of politically progressive messages for its audiences. Slippery Pastimes covers a variety of topics: Canadian popular music from rock 'n' roll to country, hip-hop to pop-Celtic; television; advertising; tourism; sport and even postage stamps! As co-editors, Nicks and Sloniowski have taken an open view of the Canadian Popular, and contributors have approached their top |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Canada
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Civilization
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Popular culture
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Massenkultur
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Populaire cultuur.
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| SUBJECT |
Canada -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019288
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| Subject |
Canada
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Kanada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nicks, Joan, 1937-
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Sloniowski, Jeannette, 1946-
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| LC no. |
2004444554 |
| ISBN |
088920666X |
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9780889206663 |
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1280925523 |
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9781280925528 |
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9786610925520 |
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6610925526 |
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