CAML Review / Revue de l'ACBM v46, no.1

CAML Review / Revue de l'ACBM, 2018

Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music from 1960-2000. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft. Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers, vol. 3. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 258 pp. ISBN 9780190236892. Reviewed by: Roxane Prevost, University of Ottawa Canadian Music and American Culture: Get Away From Me. Edited by Tristanne Connolly and Tomoyuki Iino. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. 297 pp. ISBN 978-3- 319-50022-5. Reviewed by: Allyson Rogers, McGill University Dawn of Night: Music by Stephen Chatman. University of Toronto MacMillan Singers. Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor. Toronto: Centrediscs, CMCCD 24617, 2017. 1 compact disc (60 mins). Reviewed by: Joannie Ing, York University Lightfoot. By Nicholas Jennings. [Toronto]: Viking, 2017. 328 pp. ISBN 9780735232556. Reviewed by: Elaine Keillor, C.M., Carleton University Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road. Edited by Gordon E. Slethaug. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 280 pp. ISBN 9781501335273. Reviewed by: Alex Gage, York University Schubert’s Mature Instrumental Music: A Theorist’s Perspective. By David Beach. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017. 212 pages. ISBN 9781580465922. Reviewed by: Brian Black, University of Lethbridge

Yearbook for Traditional Music, 2012

In the first half of the twentieth century, Newfoundland in particular was a mecca for collectors from abroad, among them Maud Karpeles (one of the founders of the IFMC) whose achievements as scholar and cultural mobilizer were recognized at the 2011 conference in an exhibit curated by Anna Guigne, ICTM Executive Board members and family members of singers who had recorded for Karpeles attended the launch of the exhibit just prior to the opening of the world conference. Only in the late 1960s did ethnomusicology become part of the music curricula in Canadian universities. The discipline's rapid growth in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries (see Diamond 2006) was evident in the participation of more than one hundred Canadian delegates in the St. John's conference of2011. A collaborator in the organization of the ICTM meeting was the Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La Societe canadienne des traditions musicales, founded by Barbeau in 1956, but revitalized in the past decade as a vibrant forum for ethnomusicological exchange. As advertised on their website, the CSTM/SCTM's broad outlook is congruent with the inclusiveness of the ICTM.

CAML Review / Revue de l'ACBM, 2019

Bluegrass Generation: A Memoir. By Neil Rosenberg. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 273 pp. ISBN 9780252083396.Reviewed by: Sija Tsai, Independent scholar, Toronto Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times. By Alan Walker. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2018. 727 pp. ISBN 9780374159061. Reviewed by: Jolanta Pekacz, Dalhousie University La Patrie / Our Canada: Canadian Orchestral Music 1874-1943. Symphonova Orchestra, Shelley Katz, Symphonist. Toronto: Centrediscs CMCD 25618, 2018. Calling: John Beckwith Instrumental Works / Oeuvres instrumentals, 2006-2016. Various Performers. Toronto: Centrediscs CMCCD 24917, 2018. Reviewed by: J. Drew Stephen, University of Texas at San Antonio Reception of Diana Krall, Unique Jazz Phenomenon. By Zuzana Ben Lassoued-Balazsházyová. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018. 189 pp. ISBN 978-3631745755. Reviewed by: Rob van der Bliek, York University Tim Brady: Music for Large Ensemble. Boulder, CO: Starkland ST-230, 2018. Reviewed by: Alastair Boyd, University of Toronto

What does the action or discipline of composition mean in 2017? Different arts will flow into, and away from each other organically. Rigidly defined boundaries can restrict what art belongs where, and which preservation and qualitative techniques are used, and can be an impediment to evolving the creative process.

Amerikastudien/American Studies, 2015

The Scottish Journal of Performance, 2014

CAML Review / Revue de l'ACBM, 2011

As a librarian, I can attest that reference publications like The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (EMC) are, if anything, all that much more important in the online era. The -born digital‖ generation, which has little experience with the traditional library, seems disinclined to spend time exploring print collections. 1 But there is strong interest in the digital versions of such publications, which supply authoritative surveys of subjects as well as departure points for further investigation. EMC has been provided with open access on the Web by the Historica Foundation (now Historica-Dominion Institute) since 2003, when it was incorporated into The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE). The not-for-profit institute celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the first edition of EMC as it maintains and builds on that original work. EMC1, published in 1981 and followed by an expanded second edition in 1992, was a landmark event in the annals of Canadian letters. It also sparked considerable attention internationally. The prefaces to both editions, as well as Helmut Kallmann's subsequent articles, remain essential reading for the genesis, editorial philosophy, and reception of this classic. Perhaps the greatest advantage of the print edition is that one can hold this -tree of knowledge‖ in one's hands and browse the alphabetical index to discover the variety that may be hidden in today's online version. Care and attention were lavished on the quality of the writing, which made it accessible to a public readership. Despite the small typeface, one can still read it for pleasure. The lexicon is punctuated with well-chosen illustrations and reproductions of photographs that stimulate browsing. Both editions are admirable not only for the quality of their content, but for the directorial organization, indepth index, extensive cross-referencing, and thoroughness and clarity of the documentation. In contrast, with the online EMC, one tends to see only the -branches.‖ The hopping from branch to branch has made usage more strategic than meditative. For those not accustomed to reading at length on a screen, printing may be required for the longer articles, which the website accommodates with printable versions of all entries. Nevertheless, searchability and the 24/7 universal access are enormous benefits. The online encyclopedia is also a leader in projects funded by the federal Canadian Heritage ministry in that it is the first to have a mobile version. When there is a standard e-reader with wide applicability that includes such features as text searching and note-taking, a downloadable EMC could well be in demand (particularly in the form of a contemporary app)and reading for pleasure could make a comeback. 1. The pendulum may eventually swing back in terms of the valuation of print collections. There are unresolved issues of access, ownership, preservation, learning styles across the generations, technological change, and close reading in the online era.

RadioDoc Review, 2015

Overview of the nine audio features critiqued by Guest Reviewers, who are themselves eminent producers and curators of audio features. The works reviewed are from the US,

CAML Review / Revue de l'ACBM, 2019

Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular and Sacred Music to 1900. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft. Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers, vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 288 pp. ISBN 9780190237028. Reviewed by: Roxane Prevost, University of Ottawa Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography. By Andrea Warner. Vancouver, BC: Greystone Books, 2018. 304 pp. ISBN 9781771643580. Reviewed by: Monique Giroux, University of Lethbridge Classical Music: Expect the Unexpected. By Kent Nagano with Inge Kloepfer. Translated from German by Hans-Christian Oeser. Montreal, QC; Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. 238 pp. ISBN 9780773556348. Reviewed by: Elaine Keillor, Carleton University Debussy’s Resonance. Edited by François de Médicis and Steven Huebner. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2018. 640 pp. ISBN 9781580465250. Reviewed by: Edward Jurkowski, University of Manitoba From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory. By James Tenney. Edited by Larry Polansky, Lauren Pratt, Robert Wannamaker, and Michael Winter. Urbana- Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015. First Paperback Edition, 2019. 467 pp. ISBN 9780252084379. Reviewed by: Lelland Reed, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Lire, écouter, écrire : Initiation à la recherche en musique à partir des méthodes des sciences humaines. Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis, avec la collaboration de Marie-Pier Leduc. Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018. 256 pp. ISBN 9782760639393. Compte rendu de Tristan Paré-Morin, Université de Pennsylvanie The Pop Palimpsest: Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music. Edited by Lori Burns and Serge Lacasse. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. 360 pp. ISBN 9780472130672. Reviewed by: Stephanie Bonjack, University of Colorado Boulder Research-Creation in Music and the Arts: Towards a Collaborative Interdiscipline. By Sophie Stévance and Serge Lacasse. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. 178 pp. ISBN 9781472486073. Reviewed by: Allyson Rogers, McGill University They Shot, He Scored: The Life and Music of Eldon Rathburn. By James K. Wright. Montreal, QC; Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. 362 pp. ISBN 9780773557154. Reviewed by: Michael Pinsonneault, Concordia University

CAML Review / Revue de l'ACBM, 2018

The Ballad in American Popular Music: From Elvis to Beyoncé. By David Metzer. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 223 pp. ISBN 9781107161528. Reviewed by: Lori Burns, University of Ottawa Gary Karr: Life on the G String. By Mary Rannie. Victoria, BC: Friesen Press, 2017. 309 pp. ISBN 9781525501647. Reviewed by: Lisa Emberson, Library and Archives Canada Song of a Nation: The Untold Story of Canada’s National Anthem. By Robert Harris. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2018. 212 pp. ISBN 9780771050923. Reviewed by: John Beckwith, University of Toronto