Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. "The Pleasure Is Exquisite but Violent": The Imaginary Geography of Niagara Falls in the Nineteenth Century1 21
5. Aboriginal Cultural Tourism in Canada1 37
6. Laura Secord meets the candyman: the image of laura secord in popular culture 61
7. Canada Post’s Le petit liseur (The young reader): Framing a Reproduction 81
8. Dilemmas of Definition 95
9. Reading Canadian "Popular" Television: The Case of E.N.G. 111
10. Two Lawyers and an Issue: Reconstructing Quebec’s "Nation" in A nous deux! 127
11. Straight Up and Youth Television: Navigating Dreams without Nationhood 141
12. Popularizing History: The Valour and the Horror 159
13. In the Great Midwestern Hardware Store: The Seventies Triumph in English-Canadian Rock Music 177
14. Reelin’ ’n’ Rockin’: Genre-Bending and Boundary-Crossing in Canada’s "East Coast Sound" 217
15. Forceful Nuance and Stompin’ Tom 243
16. "It’s My Nature": The Discourse of Experience and Black Canadian Music 263
17. "Cowboyography": Matter and Manner in the Songs of Ian Tyson 279
18. Canada, the Olympics and the Ray-Ban Man 299
19. Hockey as Canadian Popular Culture: Team Canada 1972, Television and the Canadian Identity 321
20. contributors 345