Stompin' Tom Connors

Stompin' Tom Connors
Author: Charlie Rhindress
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459505387

Stompin' Tom Connors is a Canadian legend. There are very few Canadians who don't know the foot-stompin' patriot in the cowboy hat who sang almost exclusively about the country he loved and called home. But there is much more to Tom Connors than "Bud the Spud" and "The Hockey Song." This biography paints the picture of an intelligent, stubborn, creative, cantankerous and thoughtful man who created a character that would be embraced by Canadians from coast to coast. This is the story of the man behind Stompin' Tom.

Bud the Spud

Bud the Spud
Author: Stompin' Tom Connors
Publisher: Halifax, NS : Nimbus Pub.
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781551094298

The famous and irresistible song about potatoes is now on the printed page in lively storybook form.

The Hockey Song

The Hockey Song
Author: Stompin' Tom Connors
Publisher: Greystone Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1771641908

As Stompin’ Tom Connors sings, “It’s the good old hockey game, the best game you can name.” And in this charmingly illustrated book for all ages, the classic song played at hockey games around the world is imagined as a shinny game on an outdoor rink in the middle of the city that starts with two players and soon grows to include the whole community. “The puck is in! The hometown wins! The good ol’ hockey game.”

Stompin' Tom

Stompin' Tom
Author: Stompin' Tom Connors
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 576
Release: 1996
Genre: CONNORS, TOM
ISBN: 9780140251111

250 Songs by Stompin' Tom

250 Songs by Stompin' Tom
Author: Stompin' Tom Connors
Publisher: Georgetown, Ont. : Crown-Vetch Music
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2005
Genre: Popular music Canada Texts
ISBN: 9780973817102

Canuck Rock

Canuck Rock
Author: Ryan Edwardson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2009-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442697067

The Guess Who. Gordon Lightfoot. Joni Mitchell. Neil Young. Stompin' Tom Connors. Robert Charlebois. Anne Murray. Crowbar. Chilliwack. Carole Pope. Loverboy. Bryan Adams. The Barenaked Ladies. The Tragically Hip. Céline Dion. Arcade Fire. K-oS. Feist. These musicians are national heroes to generations of Canadians. But what does it mean to be a Canadian musician? And why does nationality even matter? Canuck Rock addresses these questions by delving into the myriad relationships between the people who make music, the industries that produce and sell it, the radio stations and government legislation that determine availability, and the fans who consume it and make it their own. An invaluable resource and an absorbing read, Canuck Rock spans from the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s through to today's international recording industry. Combining archival material, published accounts, and new interviews, Ryan Edwardson explores how music in Canada became Canadian music.

Slippery Pastimes

Slippery Pastimes
Author: Joan Nicks
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2009-10-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1554587611

Sixteen essays, written by specialists from many fields, grapple with the problem of a popular culture that is not very popular — but is seen by most as vital to the body politic, whether endangered by globalization or capable of politically progressive messages for its audiences. Slippery Pastimes covers a variety of topics: Canadian popular music from rock ’n’ roll to country, hip-hop to pop-Celtic; television; advertising; tourism; sport and even postage stamps! As co-editors, Nicks and Sloniowski have taken an open view of the Canadian Popular, and contributors have approached their topics from a variety of perspectives, including cultural studies, women’s studies, film studies, sociology and communication studies. The essays are accessibly written for undergraduate students and interested general readers.

Surviving Me

Surviving Me
Author: Jo Johnson
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1789650623

Tom has decided he doesn't want to live. Adam wishes he had a choice. Tom's lost his job and now he's been labelled 'spermless'. He doesn't exactly feel like a modern man, although his double life helps. Yet when his secret identity threatens to unravel, he starts to lose the plot and comes perilously close to the edge. All the while Adam has his own duplicity, albeit for very different reasons, reasons which will blow the family's future out of the water. If they can't be honest with themselves, and everyone else, then things are going to get a whole lot more complicated.

Stomping the Blues

Stomping the Blues
Author: Albert Murray
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1452956154

In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that “the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits, but in the process of doing so it is actually expected to generate a disposition that is both elegantly playful and heroic in its nonchalance.” In Stomping the Blues Murray explores its history, influences, development, and meaning as only he can. More than two hundred vintage photographs capture the ambiance Murray evokes in lyrical prose. Only the sounds are missing from this lyrical, sensual tribute to the blues.