The Spaces and Places of Canadian Popular Culture

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Contents: "We weren't mean to be sing this music": Vag Halen's queer feminist covers / Craig Jennex -- Defining and redefining Québécoic identity: Quebec cinema in the 21st century / David Hanley -- Translocality and the articulation of a Jamaican/Canadian identity in the music of Michee Mee / Niel Scobie -- Being Canada: Joe's rant, nationalism, whiteness, and the illustion of neutrality, then and now / Sharlee Cranston-Reimer -- Syrus Marcus Ware: #BlackLivesMatter, and "artivism" in Canada / Joana Joachim -- Loving and loathing on Schitt's Creek: how representations of emotion, identities, and nation matter / Victoria Kannen -- Integrating black lives in education: black lives matter freedom school / Audrey Hudson -- A read on Canada Reads / J.C. Villamere -- Non/monogamies in Canadian children's picture books / Liz Borden -- "I'm a criminal ... it's all I know": comedy, crime, and critical thinking in Trailer Park Boys / Dawne Clarke -- From "one nation under gord" to #WeTheNorth: whose Canada peaked? / Jocelyn Smith -- "This beautiful land we can all proudly call home": The Amazing Race Canada and the maintenance of national myths / Andrea Ruehlicke -- Canadian popular culture and the many "faces" of TV formats / Stéfany Boisvert and Audrey Bélanger -- The boundaries of national cinema: international co-productions and Canadian film culture / Peter Lester -- The Canadian genre film as cultural commentary / Andrea Braithwaite -- Under the shadows of Hollywood: the politcal economy of Canadian cinema / James McMahon -- Burying the past: indigeneity and the Canadian horror canon / Mike Follert -- The greatest Canadian superhero there never was: Kao-kuk "the Eskimo astronaut" / Neil Shyminsky -- Sounds Canadian? familiar voices in an exaggerated Canada: exploring the sound world of Chilly Beach / Kristeen McKee -- Red, white, and grey: double double land un-defining Canadian popular culture / Nicole Marchesseau -- Playing Canadian: a brief history of tabletop games in Canada / Ryan Clement -- Canadian indie video games: more than locations, landmarks, and loonies / Aaron Langille -- Stereo/types: female DJs and the token/gimmick binary / Maren Hancock -- The beat of culture: teaching Quebec culture through music / Yvonne Völkl -- Ramping up Canadian disability culture / Kelly Fritsch -- Canadian pop in the digital age: pioneering pathways to stardom and representation via Justin Bieber / Melissa Avdeeff -- Canadian crybabies: radical softness, feminized fan publics, and the politics of Carly Rae Jepsen / Andi Schwartz and Morgan Bimm -- Gender matters at the centennial Calgary stampede parade / Kimberly A. Williams -- "Wanna hang out at the mall and catch a movie?": the disposability of the West Edmonton Mall Multiplex / Ian Fitzgerald -- The "funny" thing about food allergies ... in Canadian media culture / Janis Goldie -- Consuming popular culture and politics in beer / Lori A. Crowe -- Hockey invented Canada: Questioning the myths of manufactured nationalism / Tyler Shipley.