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  • A Magical Time

    The Early Days of the Arts at Simon Fraser University

    by Frances Atkinson, Tessa Perkins Deneault, Carole Gerson, Christine Hearn, Bill Jeffries, Francis Mansbridge, Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp, Sandy Wilson, Max Wyman, Ann Cowan ...
    Simon Fraser University went from an idea in 1963 to opening its doors in 1965, a feat that led it to be dubbed “the instant university.” This multi-authored history chronicles the excitement of that first radical decade of the arts at SFU.The 1960s were famously a decade of cultural revolution, and Simon Fraser University was a creature of its time. The counter-culture spirit infected all levels ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art

    Edited by Marcel Cobussen, Vincent Meelberg, Barry Truax ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art presents an overview of the issues, methods, and approaches crucial for the study of sound in artistic practice. Thirty-six essays cover a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to studying sounding art from the fields of musicology, cultural studies, sound design, auditory culture, art history, and philosophy. The companion website hosts sound examples and ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

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    Expo '67 And Its Time

    by John Lownsbrough ...
    Series series History of Canada
    A pivotal event in Canada’s history For six months in 1967, from late April until the end of October, Canada and its world's fair, Expo 67, became the focus of national and international attention in a way the country and its people had rarely experienced. Expo 67 crystallized the buoyant mood and newfound sense of confidence many felt during Canada's centennial. It becomes clearer, though, as its ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?

    Experiencing Aural Architecture

    by Barry Blesser, Linda-Ruth Salter ...
    How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Listening through the Noise

    The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    by Joanna Demers ...
    Contemporary electronic music has splintered into numerous genres and subgenres, all of which share a concern with whether sound, in itself, bears meaning. Listening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Arrival

    The Story of CanLit

    by Nick Mount, 3M National Teaching Fellowship ...
    “The most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature… Arrival: The Story of CanLit brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy.” — Winnipeg Free PressA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookNational Post 99 Best Books of the YearIn the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peter Gzowski

    A Biography

    by R.B. Fleming ...
    Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of Canada during those decades, beginning with Gzowski’s days at the University of Toronto’s The Varsity in the mid 1950s, through his years as the youngest-ever managing editor of Maclean’s in the 1960s ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audio Culture, Revised Edition

    Readings in Modern Music

    Edited by Daniel Warner, Professor Christoph Cox ...
    The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Archaeologies of Presence

    Edited by Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Michael Shanks ...
    Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Fashion

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rebecca Arnold ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Sonic Flux

    Sound, Art, and Metaphysics

    by Christoph Cox ...
    From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox argues that these developments in the sonic arts are not only aesthetically but also philosophically significant, revealing sound to be a continuous ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Burlesque West

    Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver

    by Becki Ross ...
    After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West,the first critical history of this notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver that provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD