Whispering Pines
De Gordon Lightfoot à Joni Mitchell, Whispering Pines retrace l’épopée méconnue des auteurs-compositeurs canadiens qui ont marqué la musique mondiale.
Whispering Pines is the first comprehensive history of Canada's immense songwriting legacy, from Gordon Lightfoot to Joni Mitchell.
Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, 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 transfer 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 were instant standards, while during the '70s singer/songwriter movement few artists were more revered than Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.
This is the first thorough exploration of how these, along with other lesser-known but no less significant, artists came to establish a distinct Canadian musical identity from the 1930s to the end of the 1970s. Anecdotes explaining the personal and creative connections that many of the artists shared comprise a large aspect of the storytelling, along with first-person interviews and extensive research. The emphasis is on the essential music - how and where it originated, and what impact it eventually had on both the artists' subsequent work, and the wider musical world.
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Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, 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 transfer 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 were instant standards, while during the '70s singer/songwriter movement few artists were more revered than Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.
This is the first thorough exploration of how these, along with other lesser-known but no less significant, artists came to establish a distinct Canadian musical identity from the 1930s to the end of the 1970s. Anecdotes explaining the personal and creative connections that many of the artists shared comprise a large aspect of the storytelling, along with first-person interviews and extensive research. The emphasis is on the essential music - how and where it originated, and what impact it eventually had on both the artists' subsequent work, and the wider musical world.
Jason Schneider
**Jason Schneider** est un auteur et journaliste canadien, reconnu comme l’un des plus respectés critiques musicaux de son pays. Il est notamment co-auteur de *Have Not Been The Same: The CanRock Renaissance*, un ouvrage de référence sur la scène musicale canadienne des années 1985-1995. *3,000 Miles*, son premier roman, s’inspire de son expertise de la culture grunge et de la génération X, offrant une plongée sombre et poétique dans les tourments de la jeunesse désenchantée.
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Whispering Pines est le premier ouvrage à explorer en profondeur l’héritage des chansonniers canadiens, de Gordon Lightfoot à Leonard Cohen, en passant par Joni Mitchell et Neil Young. Il révèle comment ces artistes ont su allier influences internationales et spécificités culturelles canadiennes pour créer des œuvres universelles. Grâce à des entretiens exclusifs et une recherche approfondie, ce livre offre une plongée unique dans les coulisses de la création musicale.
Le livre aborde plusieurs thèmes centraux : l’émergence d’une identité musicale canadienne, les défis rencontrés par les artistes pour percer à l’international, et l’influence des genres comme le folk, le country et le rock. Il analyse aussi les liens personnels et créatifs entre les musiciens, ainsi que l’impact de leur environnement social et géographique sur leur art.
Ce livre s’adresse aux amateurs de musique, aux passionnés d’histoire culturelle, et à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la création artistique. Il séduira aussi les étudiants en musicologie, les mélomanes curieux de découvrir les racines de la chanson nord-américaine, et les lecteurs en quête d’histoires humaines derrière les grands noms de la musique.
Avec ce smartbook, vous pourrez interroger directement le texte sur des sujets précis : les anecdotes de tournage ou d’écriture, les influences musicales de chaque artiste, les contextes historiques des chansons emblématiques, ou encore les connexions entre les différents courants musicaux canadiens. Posez des questions sur un artiste, une décennie, ou un thème pour approfondir votre compréhension.
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