Culture and Scholarship: The First Ten Years of the Canada Council

Granatstein, J. L.

doi:10.3138/chr-065-04-01

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“…This hybridity has been pointed out by others, including Frank Milligan (1980) and J. L. Granatstein (1984). With the ACGB, the Canada Council shared the word Council in its name, an appointment process for Council members, and the policy practice of arm's-length distribution of funds.…”

Section: Canada Emerges From "Colony To Nation"mentioning

confidence: 91%

“…L. Granatstein (1984) has offered a detailed account of the first 10 years of the Canada Council, beginning with the circumstances surrounding the legislation and continuing with an account of its early grant-making. This somewhat celebratory narrative credits the Council and federal money with advancing the arts in Canada.…”

Section: The Massey Commission and The Canada Councilmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Canada Council was approved and funded in 1957, after the Canadian government received a financial windfall of $100 million from the estates of two Canadian millionaires. The Liberal government used $50 million to establish an endowment for the Canada Council and $50 million in capital funds for the universities (see Granatstein 1984;.…”

Section: Canada Emerges From "Colony To Nation"mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Canada Emerges From "Colony To Nation"mentioning

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“…By the time the league's founders themselves reached the age of 60, the age-restricting policy was no longer in effect. 39 Beckwith, "Memories and a Few Red-Necked Opinions," in Music Papers: Articles and Talks by a Canadian Composer 1961-1994(Ottawa: Golden Dog Press, 1997 40 John Beckwith, letter to the author, 14 October 1998. 41 Carl Morey et al, "Canada," Grove Music Online, ed.…”

Section: Membership: Struggling With Inclusivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A “League Against Willan”? The Early Years of the Canadian League of Composers, 1951–1960

Wolters-Fredlund¹

2011

J Soc American Mus

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The founders of the Canadian League of Composers were young modernists who resented the conservative musical climate in Canada epitomized by the traditional British style of Canada's most famous composer, Healey Willan. In their first decade (1951–60), during which their membership grew from eight to more than forty and they presented dozens of concerts of new Canadian music, they struggled to find a balance between two competing goals: championing the cause of all Canadian composers, regardless of style, and promoting modern and avant-garde styles, which had been virtually ignored by the older Canadian musical establishment. This article probes how those tensions played out in two of the league's early activities: membership decisions and concert programming. Although the league did admit composers and feature works representing a wide variety of stylistic influences, its membership and concerts were nonetheless dominated by younger composers interested in modern styles, especially the group of composers in John Weinzweig's circle in Toronto. The group earned a reputation as young radicals because of their modernistic programming choices and a controversial policy that limited membership to composers younger than sixty. Although its members may not have been entirely successful in their efforts at inclusivity, the league's ground-breaking activities in the 1950s did help to establish a place for composition generally and musical modernism in particular in the postwar Canadian cultural landscape.

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“…After the release of the Massey Report, which indeed advocated "the establishment of a 'Canada Council for the Encouragement of the Arts, Letters, Humanities and Social Sciences,'" 114 the Canadian Arts Council, along with all of its member groups, worked hard to call attention to the issues that continued to face the average Canadian artist. The goal was to "press the government for a Canada Council," 115 and in 1954, a cabinet committee was indeed established at the federal 48 level in order to review the feasibility of creating such a federal cultural institution.…”

Section: The Canada Councilmentioning

confidence: 99%

Affecting access to the independent media arts : policy and preservation initiatives in Canada

Wozny¹

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The author has granted a nonexclusive license allowing Library and Archives Canada to reproduce, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, communicate to the public by telecommunication or on the Internet, loan, distribute and sell theses worldwide, for commercial or noncommercial purposes, in microform, paper, electronic and/or any other formats.L'auteur a accorde une licence non exclusive permettant a la Bibliotheque et Archives Canada de reproduce, publier, archiver, sauvegarder, conserver, transmettre au public par telecommunication ou par I'lnternet, preter, distribuer et vendre des theses partout dans le monde, a des fins commerciales ou autres, sur support microforme, papier, electronique et/ou autres formats. Cultural Policy and Independent Media Art in CanadaJohn M. Bumsted underscores two common usages of the word culture, distinguishable predominately by variance of purpose. Anthropologically used to describe constant social flux, culture embodies the values, beliefs and customs expressed amorphously by a people. In the words of Raymond Gagne, culture is therefore "a given people's particular set of preferences, predispositions, attitudes, goals: its particular way of perceiving, feeling, thinking, and reacting to objective o reality." In this anthropological sense, to archive culture would be to reflect society; on a national scale, this would logically include the indigenous, grass roots, ethnic and regional communities of a country. One might consequently assume that any archival strategy that sought to document the cultural evolution of a nation would likewise embrace the histories of such communities, and in Canada, this would therefore include those contributions ensconced within JJVIAA, itself a nation-wide network of varied media arts organizations that exists within the broader expanse of Canadian and international artist-run culture.Alternatively, Bumsted concedes that culture can also be read as an ideological currency that is used by the intelligentsia and the state to refer to "the

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Culture and Scholarship: The First Ten Years of the Canada Council

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Linking cultural policy from Great Britain to Canada

Linking cultural policy from Great Britain to Canada

A “League Against Willan”? The Early Years of the Canadian League of Composers, 1951–1960

Affecting access to the independent media arts : policy and preservation initiatives in Canada

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