Title:
Contemporary musical expressions in Canada
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
©2019
Physical Description:
xx, 536 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780773558809
Abstract:
"Music and dance in Canada today are diverse and expansive, reflecting histories of travel, exchange and interpretation, and challenging conceptions of expressive culture that are bounded and static. Reflecting current trends in ethnomusicology, Contemporary Musical Expressions in Canada examines cultural continuity, disjuncture, intersection, and interplay in music and dance across the country. Essays reconsider conceptual frameworks through which cultural forms are viewed, critique policies meant to encourage crosscultural sharing, and address ways in which traditional forms of expression have changed to reflect new contexts and audiences. From North Indian kathak dance, Chinese lion dance, early Toronto hip hop, and contemporary cantor practices within the Byzantine Ukrainian Church in Canada to folk music performances in twentieth-century Quebec, Gaelic milling songs in Cape Breton, and Mennonite songs in rural Manitoba, this collection offers detailed portraits of contemporary music practices and how they engage with diverse cultural expressions and identities. At a historical moment when identity politics, multiculturalism, diversity, immigration, and border crossings are debated around the world, Contemporary Musical Expressions in Canada demonstrates the many ways that music and dance practices in Canada engage with these broader global processes."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Foreword / Gordon E. Smith -- Introduction : Judith Klassen, Anna Hoefnagels, and Sherry Johnson -- The study of music in Canada : ethnomusicological sources and institutional priorities / Anna Hoefnagels, Judith Klassen, and Sherry Johnson -- Part one : Transforming musical traditions. Introduction / Anna Hoefnagels ; Le bon vieux temps : the veillée in twentieth-century Quebec / Laura Risk ; Kathak in Canada : classical and contemporary / Margaret E. Walker ; Taking the piss out : presentational and participatory elements in the history of the Cape Breton milling frolic / Heather Sparling ; Improvising on the margins : tradition and musical agency in les Îles-de-la-Madeleine / Meghan C. Forsyth ; The continuities and legacies of English song traditions in Nova Scotia / Chris McDonald -- Part two : Rethinking genres and artistic practices. Introduction / Sherry Johnson ; Metis (style) fiddling : from historical roots to contemporary practice / Monique Giroux ; War drums in Chinatown : Chinese Canadian lion dance percussion as martial art / Colin P. McGuire ; "Holy jeez, I can hear everything" : liveness in Cape Breton fiddle recordings / Ian Hayes ; Fantastic voyage : the diasporic roots and routes of early Toronto hip hop / Jesse Stewart and Niel Scobie ; Identity, aesthetics, and place in Medicine Dream's "In this world" / Janie Esther Tulk -- Part three : Heterogeneity, diversity, and the possibility of alternatives. Introduction / Judith Klassen ; A view from Toronto : local perspectives on music making, ethnocultural difference, and the cultural life of a city / Louise Wrazen ; Re-imagining the nation : the CBC as a mediator of ethnocultural encounter in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador / Rebecca Draisey-Collishaw ; Music, mimesis, and modulation among Mennonites in rural Manitoba / Judith Klassen ; Ukrainian Catholic congregational singing in Canada : sounds in service and celebration / Marcia Ostashewiski ; (Re)Presenting indigenous activism in the nation's capital : signifying resistance across time and place through music in Alanis Obomsawin's Trick or treaty? (2014) / Anna Hoefnagels.
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Language:
English
