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Hockey is a symbol of Canadian culture.  When someone is trying to identify Canadaian culture they will usually bring up hockey.   Hockey is Canada’s unofficial national sport.  Hockey is even a recurring topic in our literature which is also an aspect of Canaidan Culture. An instructor named Michael P.J. Kennedy, at the University of Saskatchewan, has even created a course entitled “Reading Culture: Hockey in Canadian Literature.” (Watterworth).  The Tragically Hip wrote a song about Hockey in Canada called Fifty Mission Cap.  The song is about a hockey player named Bill Barilko who played for the Canadian Maple Leafs.  Bill scored the winning goal in game five of the 1951 Stanley Cup final’s (Del Mundo).  Soon after he went missing.  His body was not found until 1962, the same year the Maple Leafs won another Stanley Cup (Del Mundo).  Maybe Bill was a Canadian Lucky charm in Hockey. The song lyrics of the Tragically Hip describe Bill’s mysterious disappearance.  There are different speculations as to what the “fifty missions cap” refers to in the song.  I have heard that it refers to a fighter pilots hat after the pilot has completed 50 bombings.  Maybe the fifty missions cap represents a symbol of remembering a triumph that continued on after death. In the song he says he keeps his hockey card in his fifty mission cap.  Maybe the cap represents Bill's legacy (the card) and Bills memory (the cap)  I think that this can be looked at from many different angles, and I shouldnt get to in depth with it (unless you want me to?) Bellow is a link to the song’s video and a link to the lyrics.  Enjoy J

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Anyway, this song is actually a song about breakfast, or rather, that time in the morning, just after waking up. The whole idea is that this is one of those moments that unites people, something people share if they wake up. In a sense, it's a call for peace, to give people this chance to have these morning routines. The whole song feels like an extremely comfortable routine, at a time when the problems in the word seem to be at their lowest. 

Simple X by Andrew Bird

some people wake up on Monday mornings

barring maelstroms and red flare warnings

with no explosions and no surprises

perform a series of exercises

hold your fire

take your place around an open fire

before your neurons declare a crisis

before your trace Serotonin rises

before you're reading your coffee grounds

and before a pundit can make a sound

and before you're reading your list of vices

perform the simplest exercises

so here we are at the end

the war is over

there's nothing left to defend

no cliffs of Dover

so let us put down our pens

and this concludes the test

our minds are scattered about

from hell to breakfast

hold your fire

take your place around an open fire

don't open fire 

 jh

Grey Fox is a modern Canadian fiddle-tune written for claw-hammer style banjo by my dear friend, Catherine Black. The Victoria group, Outlaw Social, performs the version I have submitted. The song is named for Bill Miner, the man who committed Canada’s first train robbery, also known as the “the gentleman bandit.” Fiddle music is a cultural phenomenon on several levels.  Fiddle music is designed to be played informally as a social activity. Fiddle tunes, both new and old, are often transmitted in this social setting, rather than being learned from notation. I have selected this particular piece because it comes from here on the island, and I have had the pleasure of seeing it propagate into the local canon of fiddle tunes. I also selected it because Catherine has said to me that  Grey Fox “is the sound of happiness” and I for one agree.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ5uFkaKtuE  

Ab cp-acdc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvoeeq-BH4w

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My music selection is from the Be Good Tanyas with their song, "The Junkie Song".  This song is about the homeless situation in downtown Vancouver and the songwritters response to feelings of guilt and helpness for the people.

 I identify with the song writters feelings and suspect that many other people of today's society do as well.  I think this song is important for this generation because it directly addresses the problem of homelessness and unequality in our world

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EK  http://video.google.ca/videosearch?hl=en&q=fifty+mission+cap&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=x50YS9bOFYeqtgOJsdH-BA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CBcQqwQwAw#hl=en&q=fifty+mission+cap&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=x50YS9bOFYeqtgOJsdH-BA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CBcQqwQwAw&qvid=fifty+mission+cap&vid=-2100711819675796449

KB  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igOWR_-BXJU

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http://www.tedprize.org/jose-abreu/  

This speaks to the overall point of the assignment Im assuming , the talk itself is particularly insightful. 

I continue to think on how music is the missing link , a sort of key to participating together and sharing cultural knowledge without speaking - potential for bridging gaps and thinning ice when cultural clash and unfamiliarity takes place between individuals and groups of different background.  It isnt the music necessarily that will bring peace, but the discussions near it might put the foot in the otherwise locked gate.

For choosing a songs sake , I go local and independent , the theme of the song being reflections of warring with one another and within ourselves before trying to really understand and participate in discussion.  

 The song has elements of seemingly tribal drum and beat to begin with and fuses with a current westcoast indie rock vibe that strikes a beautiful harmony; metaphorical similarities of minority among nations moving.

The Spark that Screams - Vancouver, BC - No label

 Song title : Bomb the bridges 

http://www.myspace.com/sparkthatscreams

YY This is a Taiwanese children's Folk Rhymes.

The song name is growing up. The song is to encourage to be a soldier for protecting their own country.  During War II, Taiwanese fought against Japanese attack because Taiwan was occupied by Janpan for many years. The song describes to encourage children to be proud of fathers and brothers, and they want to be a soldier like their fathers and brothers who protected their country

RQ