Canuck Rock

Ryan Edwardson

An invaluable resource and an absorbing read, Canuck Rock spans from the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s through to today's international recording industry.

Introduction - Canadian Music and the Unruly Question of National IdentityLonely Boys and Wild Girls: Rock and Roll in Canada in the 1950sGuess Who?: Beatlemania and the Race to be British, 1963-66From 'Tom Dooley' to 'Mon Pays': Commercialism and Nationalization in Folk MusicCaliornia Dreamin': Why Canadian Musicians were not 'Helpless' in the United States, 1965-70Turn on, Tun in, and Drop Out': Psychedelic Music and How a Band from the Pairies was Saved by its Wheatfield Soul, 1966-70Legislated Radio': Industry, Identity, and the Push for Canadian Content, 1965-71Oh What a Feeling': Canadian Content and Identity Politics in the 1970sAnd the Juno Goes To...': Television and the Selling of 'Canadian' MusicTakin' Care of Business': The Multinational Underwriting of the Canadian Music Industry, 1970-2006Everything I Do (I Do It For Me)': Bryan Adams and the Waking Up the Neightbours ControversyConclusion - From 'Music in Canada' to 'Canadian Music'Bibliography