ON THE RECORD Polaris jurors get quotable on the Album Long List nominees. Daphni - Butterfly... by @brianfauteux.bsky.social Winner announced September 22 at Massey Hall in Toronto. Tickets available now (link in bio)
Brian Fauteux
@brianfauteux.bsky.social
Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board. Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
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Pleased to see this out in the world. Perhaps of value for those teaching media industries courses this fall. All efforts made to be current but, of course, there have been two or three further upheavals since this article went through final revisions last month. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Canadian Media Industries Policy in the Streaming Era
Abstract. The traditional structure of the Canadian media industries has been upended by technological, political, and global economic forces in the 2020s.
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Two game sevens that have almost caused a heart attack but we live to see another day. I owe Alex Newhook my life
We're doing a project on public infrastructure for music in Canada and doing a final call for musicians to participate in a survey on musicmaking at this particular moment. If you'd like to do this, please email me at: fauteux@ualberta.ca. Or pls share with others who may be!
We're doing a project on public infrastructure for music in Canada and doing a final call for musicians to participate in a survey on musicmaking at this particular moment. If you'd like to do this, please email me at: fauteux@ualberta.ca. Or pls share with others who may be!
It's the spring sale at UC Press and books are all 40 percent off with the code SPRING40. This includes Music In Orbit, of course, as well as a number of excellent recent books on similar topics. Worth a look, probably. www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...
My conversation with Dr. Judith Klassen, Curator at the Canadian Museum of History, is now online on the Questions About Music YouTube page. "What is Canadian? Popular Music and National Identity" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtQh...
QAM: Judith Klassen - What is Canadian? Popular Music and National Identity
YouTube video by Questions About Music at the University of Alberta
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Kicking off in about 20 minutes: www.youtube.com/live/CtQhM0I...
QAM: Judith Klassen - What is Canadian? Popular Music and National Identity
YouTube video by Questions About Music at the University of Alberta
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Brian Fauteux@brianfauteux.bsky.social · 4mo agoTomorrow, the next talk in the Questions About Music series is taking place. I'll be speaking with Dr. Judith Klassen, curator at the Canadian Museum of History, about the challenges of curating popular music. In-person and live streamed at 4pm MT: www.ualberta.ca/en/music/con...
Tomorrow, the next talk in the Questions About Music series is taking place. I'll be speaking with Dr. Judith Klassen, curator at the Canadian Museum of History, about the challenges of curating popular music. In-person and live streamed at 4pm MT: www.ualberta.ca/en/music/con...
What is Canadian? Popular Music and National Identity | Judith Klassen
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I'll be on CKUA speaking to Grant Stovel about International Songwriter's Day and Music In Orbit in about ten minutes. Might even pick a song to play.
It feels good to finally be fully into the public infrastructure for music project. A survey is being/about to be sent to about 2000 musicians in Canada. If that's you, please consider filling it out, I promise it will be used for good ❤️
UC Press is selling books by donation this year at SCMS which is cool and I grabbed a copy of Music Streaming Around the World. Worth a look if you like #deals
This is taking place in about an hour (central time)
Our five year old gets to skip school today to Irish dance in bars and schools across the city
One year since Music In Orbit came out, and I feel like you get to do a year anniversary post and then have to shut up about it forever. Still available via UC Press and locally at Audreys. Below are a few select posts and interviews I've done about the book since it has come out
The public sphere is a little more structurally transformed today
I had figured out how to find solid blocks of writing when the kids were pretty young, but, like often home sick and stuff. I'm finding it hard to figure this out for this new phase of after-work and weekend activities. I'm thinking big things like, "maybe a white board?"
Nobody in mountain time complains about the start time of a hockey game. We're just happy to be included.
"I must have been 16 when this album came out and it was such a soundtrack to my youth. There are lots of other records from around that era that define that time for me, but I think as a body of work it’s pretty much flawless." Jamie Campbell Bower on Bloc Party - Silent Alarm buff.ly/fB93jrb
Unbelievably great day to have phoned it in at work and watched these games all day
Concrete Cowboy@damanfu.bsky.social · 6mo agoAlso go watch the highlights of the Olympic men’s ice hockey quarterfinals. Some tight hockey being played~~
Happy #WorldRadioDay. Have you seen this, have you heard about this?
Brian Fauteux@brianfauteux.bsky.social · last yr.MUSIC IN ORBIT: SATELLITE RADIO IN THE STREAMING SPACE AGE is *officially* out today with @ucpress.bsky.social. Available in a number of formats and you can now get 30% off with the promo code: UCPSAVE30 www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...
Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning
It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.
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In fifteen minutes, a brand new episode of WHAT DO WE KNOW is airing. We're doing an all vinyl show today. We got the new Kid Rock song. We have everything. CJSR 88.5 FM, cjsr.com.
Leaning into something that is celebratory, flawless, colourful, joyful, powerful, beautiful, etc., etc., is the right move when Trump and Vance and Kid Rock and Rob Schneider or whoever are taking their ball and going home.
To set the record straight, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said today that about 30 per cent, or 1M, Albertans support independence. This is false. The latest IPSOS poll found about 15 per cent support for separation from Canada when those polled were informed about the "real-world consequences."
