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Music in Canada

Capturing Landscape and Diversity

by (author) Elaine Keillor

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2008
Category
International, General
  • Unknown

    ISBN
    9780773533912
    Publish Date
    Mar 2008
    List Price
    $49.95
  • Unknown

    ISBN
    9780773531772
    Publish Date
    Sep 2006
    List Price
    $110.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773530126
    Publish Date
    Sep 2006
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773577992
    Publish Date
    Mar 2008
    List Price
    $49.95

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Description

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.

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 Canadia

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