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Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape And Diversity
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Kwak'wakw'wakw welcome songs, an aria from Joseph Quesnol's 1808 opera Lucas et Cecile, rubbaboos (a combination of elements from First Peoples, the French and the English), the Tin Pan Alley hits of Shelton Brooks and the contemporary work of Cluade 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 geographical 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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5405029 in Books
- Published on: 2006-09-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 512 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"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
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"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
About the Author
Elaine Keillor, an internationally renowned concert pianist and Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Carleton University, is the author of John Weinzweig and His Music: The Radical Romantic of Canada and the editor of several volumes in the Canadian Musical Heritage and the piano series Performing Our Canadian Heritage.
