This collection explores Canadian music’s commentaries on American culture. ‘American Woman, get away from me!’ - one of the most resonant musical statements to come out of Canada - is a cry of love and hate for its neighbour. Canada’s close, inescapable entanglement with the superpower to the south provides a unique yet representative case study of the benefits and detriments of the global American culture machine. Literature scholars apply textual and cultural analysis to a selection of Anglo-Canadian music – from Joni Mitchell to Peaches, via such artists as Neil Young, Rush, and the Tragically Hip – to explore the generic borrowings and social criticism, the desires and failures of Canada’s musical relationship with the USA. This innovative volume will appeal to those interested in Music, Canadian Studies, and American Studies.Machine generated contents note: |g1.|tIntroduction: `Get Away From Me': Anglo-Canadian Music and the Globalization of American Culture /|rTristanne Connolly -- |g2.|t`Something's Lost but Something's Gained': Joni Mitchell and Postcolonial Lyric /|rSteve Clark -- |g3.|tView from Outside: The Band Sing America /|rTheodore Goossen -- |g4.|tNeil Young: Some Complexities in His Songs /|rHidetoshi Tomiyama -- |g5.|t`The Usual Panic in Red, White and Blue': Bruce Cockburn's America /|rKevin Hutchings -- |g6.|t`Mean, Mean Pride': Rush's Critique of American Cool /|rTristanne Connolly -- |g7.|tMax Webster Transfusion: A Little (Canadian) Blood for America's Veins /|rMark Spielmacher -- |g8.|t`Outside Looking In': Saga's Progressive Protest /|rDave Taylor -- |g9.|tTactical Electronic Bodies: Noise and Mutation in Canadian Industrial Music /|rJason Whittaker -- |g10.|tPeace, Order and their Discontents: The Tragically Hip /|rC. E. J. Simons -- |g11.|t`If I Can Make it There...': Jann Arden's American Dream /|rVeronica J. Austen -- |g12.|t`Stick it to the Pimp': Peaches' Penetration of Postmodern America's Mainstream /|rAngus Whitehead.
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This collection explores Canadian music’s commentaries on American culture. ‘American Woman, get away from me!’ - one of the most resonant musical statements to come out of Canada - is a cry of love and hate for its neighbour. Canada’s close, inescapable entanglement with the superpower to the south provides a unique yet representative case study of the benefits and detriments of the global American culture machine. Literature scholars apply textual and cultural analysis to a selection of Anglo-Canadian music – from Joni Mitchell to Peaches, via such artists as Neil Young, Rush, and the Tragically Hip – to explore the generic borrowings and social criticism, the desires and failures of Canada’s musical relationship with the USA. This innovative volume will appeal to those interested in Music, Canadian Studies, and American Studies.Machine generated contents note: |g1.|tIntroduction: `Get Away From Me': Anglo-Canadian Music and the Globalization of American Culture /|rTristanne Connolly -- |g2.|t`Something's Lost but Something's Gained': Joni Mitchell and Postcolonial Lyric /|rSteve Clark -- |g3.|tView from Outside: The Band Sing America /|rTheodore Goossen -- |g4.|tNeil Young: Some Complexities in His Songs /|rHidetoshi Tomiyama -- |g5.|t`The Usual Panic in Red, White and Blue': Bruce Cockburn's America /|rKevin Hutchings -- |g6.|t`Mean, Mean Pride': Rush's Critique of American Cool /|rTristanne Connolly -- |g7.|tMax Webster Transfusion: A Little (Canadian) Blood for America's Veins /|rMark Spielmacher -- |g8.|t`Outside Looking In': Saga's Progressive Protest /|rDave Taylor -- |g9.|tTactical Electronic Bodies: Noise and Mutation in Canadian Industrial Music /|rJason Whittaker -- |g10.|tPeace, Order and their Discontents: The Tragically Hip /|rC. E. J. Simons -- |g11.|t`If I Can Make it There...': Jann Arden's American Dream /|rVeronica J. Austen -- |g12.|t`Stick it to the Pimp': Peaches' Penetration of Postmodern America's Mainstream /|rAngus Whitehead.
