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In the middle of the conservative 1950s, rock and roll hit popular culture like an explosion a Big Bang, Baby! And the fallout from that explosion is still electrifying music fans today.

Popular music expert Richard Crouse has ventured deep into the far reaches of rock history to bring together this dynamic collection of facts and oddities. Big Bang …

What is music -- where does it come from and what does it mean? If music is in the background, and no one listens to it, does it still exist?

Why do composers write music, and how do they learn their profession?

What about Canadian music -- a regional dialect of this "universal language"? How has it been created inside the country -- how well is it u …

In addition to his activities as conductor, administrator, educator, composer, and organist, Sir Ernest MacMillan (1893-1973) found time to write more than one hundred essays and lectures on music. Always ready to use his enormous prestige to further the causes of music, MacMillan took every opportunity to admonish Canadians to develop our own comp …

Southern Rock’s rich recorded heritage is compiled and reviewed in this handy reference guide.