On Record: Audio Recording, Mediation, and Citizenship in Newfoundland and Labrador

by Beverley Diamond

Musical media and the audio recording industry have an important and complex history in Newfoundland and Labrador: professional musicians, community songwriters, local institutions, and even politicians have gone on record. The result is a widespread body of work that undercuts the idea of recorded music as a cultural commodity and deepens the province's tradition of cultural activism.Drawing on contemporary testimony and over fifty years of interviews,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228006554
• ISBN13: 9780228006558
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 434 Pages