On record : audio recording, mediation, and citizenship in Newfoundland and Labrador / Beverley Diamond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamond, Beverley, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound recordings--Newfoundland and Labrador--History.

Sound recordings.

Sound recordings--Social aspects--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Sound recording industry--Newfoundland and Labrador--History.

Sound recording industry.

Sound recording industry--Social aspects--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Music--Newfoundland and Labrador--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Social aspects--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Newfoundland and Labrador.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Drawing on contemporary testimony and over fifty years of interviews, On Record explores how recording projects have served as sonic signatures, forms of protest, homage, or parody of the foibles of those in power. Encompassing music from both settler and Indigenous communities, this book redefines the culture of a province that has most often been associated with traditional music, demonstrating that recording goes beyond the creation of a commodity: it responds to the present and to constructs of public memory.

Contents:

Sound and civic engagement

The lure of audio recording

Newfoundlanders on record : from the 1950s to the early 1970s

A unique music industry

The trouble with genre

Sonic signatures

Past and possibilities : audio recording and/as action

Just because you can : the RPM challenge in St John's Mathias Kom

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-346) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-0723-2

OCLC:

1226411715