Soundin' Canaan

By Paul D.B. Watkins
Subjects: Music, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry, Social Science, Multiculturalism

Part exploration of a key group of Black Canadian poets, part literary, cultural, and musical history, Soundin’ Canaan demonstrates how music in Black Canadian poetry is not solely aesthetic, but a form ...

Mapping Canada's Music

By Helmut Kallmann
Edited by John Beckwith & Robin Elliott
Subjects: Music

Mapping Canada’s Music is a selection of writings by the late Canadian music librarian and historian Helmut Kallmann (1922–2012). Most of the essays deal with aspects of Canadian music, but some are also a ...

Foundations of Modern Harmony

By Karel Janecek
Translated by Jana Skarecky
Edited by Anne Carothers Hall
Subjects: Music

Translated into English for the first time, Foundations of Modern Harmony, by composer and music theorist Karel Janec̆ek, addresses the analysis and composition of music not based on the tonal harmony ...

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen

Edited by Kait Pinder & Joel Deshaye
Subjects: Music, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen’s staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art.

The death of Leonard ...

Music-Making in U.S. Prisons

By Mary L. Cohen & Stuart P. Duncan
Subjects: Music, Education, Social Science, Sociology

The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and healing that ...

Community Music at the Boundaries

Edited by Lee Willingham
Subjects: Music, Education

Music lives where people live. Historically, music study has centred on the conservatory, which privileges the study of the Western European canon and Western European practice . The Eurocentric way music ...

Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile

Edited by Friedemann Sallis, Robin Elliott, and Kenneth DeLong
Subjects: Music, Biography & Autobiography, History, Cultural Studies

This book examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of István Anhalt (1919–2012), György Ku ...

Essential Song

By Lynn Whidden
Subjects: Music, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Audio Files located on Soundcloud Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and ...

Music in Range

By Brian Fauteux
Subjects: Music, Cultural Studies, Film & Media
Series: Film and Media Studies

Music in Range explores the history of Canadian campus radio, highlighting the factors that have shaped its close relationship with local music and culture. The book traces how campus radio practitioners ...

In Search of Alberto Guerrero

Edited by John Beckwith
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Music, Biography & Autobiography

In Search of Alberto Guerrero is the first full biography of the influential Chilean-Canadian pianist and teacher (1886-1959), describing Guerreros long career as virtuoso recitalist, chamber music collaborator, ...