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Slippery pastimes : reading the popular in Canadian culture /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.