简介:
一个充满发明创造的国度：1945年至1985年加拿大电子音乐史
英文 | 2026 | ISBN: 177843083X | 256页 | True EPUB | 5 MB
几十年来，加拿大电子音乐的历史一直存在于片段中-脚注，轶事和爱好者和档案保管员保存的半记忆故事。《发明家之国》将这些零散的史料汇集成首部全面阐述加拿大如何推动电子声音在全球范围内演进的著作。从战后开始，跨越了四十年，这本书揭示了一种充满活力的发明，实验和合作文化，在主流历史中很少被承认。
迈克尔·兰西奇将这些发展置于关于技术、创造力与政治的更宏大叙事之中。利用档案研究，访谈和数十年的音乐新闻，他揭示了早期的电子音乐不仅是由工程学上的突破塑造的，而且是由跨越前卫作曲，迷幻，雷鬼，迪斯科，嘻哈和实验流行音乐。乍一看似乎是孤独的摆弄与摸索，实则是一种深深植根于共同的好奇心、即兴创作与游戏之中的社会性实践。
这本书还探讨了公众支持消退和自由市场站稳脚跟的关键时刻，重塑了音乐家可用的工具以及加拿大发明家在世界舞台上的知名度。这种转变产生了持久的后果: 曾经在大学实验室或独立工作室制造的乐器难以确保大规模生产，即使电子声音成为主流音乐的核心。
通过照亮被忽视的工程师、作曲家和场景建设者的工作，rancic展示了他们的创新如何为当代电子和流行艺术家铺平道路-从驯鹿和Grimes到Halluci Nation和Kaytranada-以及塑造Drake音乐的数字制作环境，周刊和贾斯汀·比伯。由此，《tinkers的国度》将电子音乐重新定位为理解加拿大文化认同、技术想象力及艺术传承的重要场域。
这本书内容广泛，精辟且详尽，对加拿大早期的电子音乐家和发明家如何帮助建立我们现在认为理所当然的声音世界提供了重要的说明。
简介:
A Nation of Tinkerers A History of Electronic Music in Canada from 1945 to 1985
English | 2026 | ISBN: 177843083X | 256 pages | True EPUB | 5 MB
For decades, the history of Canadian electronic music has existed in fragments—footnotes, anecdotes, and half-remembered stories preserved by enthusiasts and archivists. A Nation of Tinkerers gathers these scattered pieces into the first comprehensive account of how Canada helped shape the global evolution of electronic sound. Beginning in the post-war years and spanning four decades, the book uncovers a vibrant culture of invention, experimentation, and collaboration rarely acknowledged in mainstream histories.
Michael Rancic situates these developments within a broader story about technology, creativity, and politics. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and decades of music journalism, he reveals how early electronic music was shaped not only by breakthroughs in engineering but by collaborative communities spanning avant-garde composition, psychedelia, reggae, disco, hip-hop, and experimental pop. What appears, at first glance, as solitary tinkering emerges instead as a profoundly social practice rooted in shared curiosity, improvisation, and play.
The book also examines the pivotal moment when public support receded and the free market took hold, reshaping both the tools available to musicians and the visibility of Canada’s inventors on the world stage. This shift produced lasting consequences: instruments once made in university labs or independent workshops struggled to secure mass production, even as electronic sound became central to mainstream music.
By illuminating the work of overlooked engineers, composers, and scene-builders, Rancic shows how their innovations paved the way for contemporary electronic and pop artists—from Caribou and Grimes to The Halluci Nation and Kaytranada—and for the digital production environments that shape the music of Drake, The Weeknd, and Justin Bieber. In doing so, A Nation of Tinkerers reframes electronic music as a key site for understanding Canada’s cultural identity, technological imagination, and artistic legacy.
Expansive, incisive, and richly detailed, the book provides an essential account of how Canada’s early electronic musicians and inventors helped build the sonic world we now take for granted.
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