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Author Edwardson, Ryan, 1974-

Title Canuck rock : a history of Canadian popular music / Ryan Edwardson
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 336 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits
Contents Introduction: From Rock and Roll in Canada to 'Canadian' Rock and Roll -- 1 Lonely Boys and Wild Girls: Rock and Roll in Canada in the 1950s -- 2 Guess Who?: Beatlemania and the Race to Be British -- 3 From 'Tom Dooley' to 'Mon Pays': Folk Music and the Nation -- 4 'California Dreamin': Why Canadian Musicians Were Not 'Helpless' in the United States, 1965-70 -- 5 'Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out': Psychedelia, Regionalism, and How a Band from the Prairies Had Wheatfield Soul -- 6 'Legislated Radio': Industry, Identity, and the Canadian Content Regulations -- 7 'Oh What a Feeling': Canadian Content and Identity Politics in the 1970s -- 8 'The Nation's Music Station': Television and the Idea of Canadian Music -- 9 'Takin' Care of Business': How Multinationals Underwrote the Canadian Music Industry -- 10 '(Everything I Do) I Do It for You': Bryan Adams and the Waking Up the Neighbours Controversy -- Conclusion
Summary An invaluable resource and an absorbing read, Canuck Rock spans from the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s through to today's international recording industry
Analysis History
Nonfiction
Sociology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-317) and index
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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Subject Popular music -- Canada -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Popular music
Popmusik
Canada
Kanada
Canada.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010563201
ISBN 9781442697492
1442697490
9781442697065
1442697067