Slippery Pastimes : Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture.
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Slippery Pastimes : Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture.
Yazar:
Nicks, Joan.
ISBN:
9780889206663
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1 online resource (356 pages)
Seri:
Cultural Studies
İçerik:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- HERITAGE -- "The Pleasure Is Exquisite but Violent": The Imaginary Geography of Niagara Falls in the Nineteenth Century -- Aboriginal Cultural Tourism in Canada -- Laura Secord Meets the Candyman: The Image of Laura Secord in Popular Culture -- Canada Post's Le petite liseur (The young reader): Framing a Reproduction -- Dilemmas of Definition -- TELEVISION -- Reading Canadian "Popular" Television: The Case of E.N.G. -- Two Lawyers and an Issue: Reconstructing Quebec's "Nation" in A nous deux! -- Straight Up and Youth Television: Navigating Dreams without Nationhood -- Popularizing History: The Valour and the Horror -- MUSIC -- In the Great Midwestern Hardware Store: The Seventies Triumph in English-Canadian Rock Music -- Reelin' 'n' Rockin': Genre-Bending and Boundary-Crossing in Canada's "East Coast Sound" -- Forceful Nuance and Stompin' Tom -- "It's My Nature": The Discourse of Experience and Black Canadian Music -- "Cowboyography": Matter and Manner in the Songs of Ian Tyson -- SPORTS -- Canada, the Olympics and the Ray-Ban Man -- Hockey as Canadian Popular Culture: Team Canada 1972, Television and the Canadian Identity -- CONTRIBUTORS.
Özet:
Sixteen essays, written by specialists from many fields, grapple with the problem of a popular culture that is not very popular - but is seen by most as vital to the body politic, whether endangered by globalization or capable of politically progressive messages for its audiences. Slippery Pastimes covers a variety of topics: Canadian popular music from rock 'n' roll to country, hip-hop to pop-Celtic; television; advertising; tourism; sport and even postage stamps! As co-editors, Nicks and Sloniowski have taken an open view of the Canadian Popular, and contributors have approached their topics from a variety of perspectives, including cultural studies, women's studies, film studies, sociology and communication studies. The essays are accessibly written for undergraduate students and interested general readers.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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