Canuck Rock: A History of Canadian Popular Music
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Available in Russia Shop from Russia to buy this item. Or, get it for Kobo Super Points! No one had ever recorded at that volume before. It was a preview of what was to come. Two days later I had the single and would play it over and over every night down in the basement marveling at the intensity of feeling and the exuberance in their playing … Faces were contorted, eyes glazed, mouths open. Mass hypnosis was in evidence. Another writer for the Sun displays similar disgust when Elvis hit town almost a year later, and wrote a piece with the jarring headline: Kick Her in the Teeth!
He focuses on many of the challenges that Canadian bands faced with regards to gaining respect and recognition within their own country.
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This was not only due to simple geography, but also as they were up against the much more popular and therefore market-safe sounds of imports from the U. Though the majority of the book concentrates on English language music, la belle province is far from ignored; indeed, deep respect is paid to the strong star system nurtured in Quebec:. The politics behind the marketing of music in Canada, especially the early problems of geographic inconvenience, are also well-explored, particularly in chapters 4 and 5, as the exodus of many Canadians to the US is detailed — which leads into the aforementioned CRTC-heavy sections.
The control of multinationals within the Canadian recording and radio industries, as well as the influence of the internet and digital file sharing, concludes the final chapters. Canuck Rock is a comprehensive piece of work; entertaining and fact-based, with liberal sprinklings of rock star egos, political shenanigans, and international complications.
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