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Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Whispering Pines is the first comprehensive history of Canada's immense songwriting legacy, from Gordon Lightfoot to Joni Mitchell.
Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. For most of the 20th century, that audience lay outside Canada, making the challenge that much greater. While nearly every songwriter who successfully...
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Political thriller revealing the untold story of the first American rock band to perform behind the Iron Curtain who upon their return find themselves trapped in the crosshairs of a polarized America with severe career repercussions.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Building on his 2006 book, Which Side Are You On?, Dick Weissman's A New History of American and Canadian Folk Music presents a provocative discussion of the history, evolution, and current status of folk music in the United States and Canada. North American folk music achieved a high level of popular acceptance in the late 1950s. When it was replaced by various forms of rock music, it became a more specialized musical niche, fragmenting into a proliferation...
Publisher
Pride DVD
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Although it can be difficult to detect the influences in the work of Leonard Cohen, he was informed by a far-reaching list of musicians, writers, poets and philosophies. In Leonard Cohen's Lonesome Heroes, the scope and detail of his artistic inspirations are put under the microscope. Cohen's first love was poetry and in the works of fellow Canadian Irving Layton, and the Spanish bard Federico Garcia Lorca, he found the words that moved him to create...
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