Name: Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... from Hank Snow to the Band
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Author: Schneider, Jason
ISBN: 9781550228748

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Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... from Hank Snow to the Band

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Physical Book

Author

Jason Schneider

Publisher

ECW Press

Language

English

Pages

360

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 16.0 x 2.9 cm

Weight

0.69 kg.

ISBN

1550228749

ISBN13

9781550228748

Synopsis "Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... from Hank Snow to the Band"

Whispering Pines is the first comprehensive history of Canada's songwriting legacy, from Gordon Lightfoot to Joni Mitchell. Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects their specific environment, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. For most of the 20th century, that audience lay outside Canada, making the challenge that much greater. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide did so by immersing themselves in the American and British forms of blues, folk, country, and their bastard offspring, rock and roll, traces of Canadian sensibilities were never far beneath the surface of the eventual end product.What were these sensibilities, and why did they translate so well outside Canada? With each passing decade, a clear picture eventually emerged of what Canadian songwriters were contributing to popular music, and subsequently passing on to fellow artists, both within Canada and around the world. Just as Hank Snow became a giant in country music, Ian & Sylvia and Gordon Lightfoot became crucial components of the folk revival. In the folk-rock boom that followed in the late '60s, songs by The Band and Leonard Cohen became instant standards, and, during the '70s singer-songwriter movement, few artists were more revered than Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.

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