Trevor W. Harrison's Books

Prairie Bohemian

Frank Gay’s Life in Music

By: Trevor W. Harrison

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Prairie Bohemian

Frank Gay’s Life in Music

By: Trevor W. Harrison

Gay never recorded an album, never won a Juno. His music existed in the moment, appreciated by the few who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. For the rest of us, those late-night jam sessions in a shack in an alley on the bad side of Edmonton never happened. We never got to hear him play the Cole Porter songs he loved with Carlos Montoya, never got to watch the ashes build dangerously on the end of his menthol cigarette. And when Frank Gay died, only the guitar players gently wept. — Shelley Youngblut Until his death in 1982, Edmonton luthier and guitarist Frank Gay built guitars for several famous musicians, including country stars Johnny Cash, Don Gibson, Webb Pierce, and Hank Snow. He captivated listeners with his singular talent on guitar and other instruments, and was well known within the music industry. Trevor Harrison’s detective work uncovers the story of this private, charming, and bohemian man, doing a tremendous service to Canadian culture and music history. Harrison pieces together Frank Gay’s life through interviews with people who knew him and saw him play. Very few recordings of him playing exist, and the sparse accounts of Gay’s life and work raise more questions than they answer. Musicians and instrument makers, as well as those interested in Canadian music or Edmonton’s colourful past, will be fascinated by this biography of western Canadian luthier, musician, and guitar virtuoso Frank Gay.

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249

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University of Alberta

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ISBN 10

1772120669

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9781772120660

21st Century Japan

A New Sun Rising

By: Trevor Harrison

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21st Century Japan

A New Sun Rising

By: Trevor Harrison

Subtle insights into Japan that are different from the usual catalog of descriptions and analyses.

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204

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Black Rose Books Ltd.

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ISBN 10

1551643065

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9781551643069

Canadian Society in the Twenty-First Century, Fourth Edition

An Historical Sociological Approach

By: Trevor W. Harrison,John W. Friesen

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Canadian Society in the Twenty-First Century, Fourth Edition

An Historical Sociological Approach

By: Trevor W. Harrison,John W. Friesen

Confederation may have established Canada’s nationhood in 1867, but the relationships framing Canada’s modern existence go back much further. Employing a unique socio-historical perspective, Canadian Society in the Twenty-First Century examines three formative relationships that have shaped the country: Canada and Quebec, Canada and the United States, and Canada and Indigenous nations. Now in its fourth edition, this engaging text offers students an overview of Canadian society through a series of connections rather than a collection of statistics. Trevor W. Harrison and John W. Friesen weave together complex aspects of the nation’s economic, political, and socio-cultural development. They guide readers to use this interdisciplinary framework to consider some of the tough questions that Canada is likely to face in adjusting to demands and challenges in the next few decades. Reflecting the most current scholarship in the field, this revised edition features new discussions on issues such as the current crisis of neo-liberal globalization, Canada’s petroleum industry, global warming, the Wet’suwet’en dispute in 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring the unique character of Canada today, this text is a vibrant resource for sociology courses on Canadian society as well as courses in Canadian studies and Canadian history.

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426

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Canadian Scholars

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1773382209

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9781773382203

Requiem for a Lightweight

Stockwell Day and Image Politics

By: Trevor Harrison

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Requiem for a Lightweight

Stockwell Day and Image Politics

By: Trevor Harrison

This is the story of Stockwell Day--a small-town politician of modest accomplishments--whom the big boys with the big money, and the handlers with the smarts, thought could be sold as the Great Right Hope. This book chronicles it all: the people, personalities, and politics. Throughout, the question of media image is placed front and centre as the book explores the growing problem of rational democratic politics in an era of celebrity, image, and instant culture.

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220

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Black Rose Books Ltd.

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1551642069

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9781551642062

Another Self

By: Trevor Harrison

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Another Self

By: Trevor Harrison

Best known as a political sociologist and public intellectual, Trevor W. Harrison in this collection of poems reveals, as the title suggests, another self. The poems, most never before published, were written over several decades. Both personal and political, the poems trace his experiences and observations from young adulthood to his later years as a married father of two children. Sometimes wryly humorous and playful, but always thoughtful, they will cause the reader to consider the many other selves that they too keep hidden.

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