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The untold story of Canadian electronic music from post-war labs to global pop. For decades, the history of Canadian electronic music has existed in fragments—footnotes, anecdotes, and half-remembered stories preserved by enthusiasts and archivists. A Nation of Tinkerers gathers these scattered pieces into the first comprehensive account of how Canada helped shape the global evolution of electronic sound. Beginning in the post-war years and spanning four decades, the book uncovers a vibrant culture of invention, experimentation, and collaboration rarely acknowledged in mainstream histories. Michael Rancic situates these developments within a broader story about technology, creativity, and politics. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and decades of music journalism, he reveals how early electronic music was shaped not only by breakthroughs in engineering but by collaborative communities spanning avant-garde composition, psychedelia, reggae, disco, hip-hop, and experimental pop. What appears, at first glance, as solitary tinkering emerges instead as a profoundly social practice rooted in shared curiosity, improvisation, and play. The book also examines the pivotal moment when public support receded and the free market took hold, reshaping both the tools available to musicians and the visibility of Canada’s inventors on the world stage. This shift produced lasting consequences: instruments once made in university labs or independent workshops struggled to secure mass production, even as electronic sound became central to mainstream music. By illuminating the work of overlooked engineers, composers, and scene-builders, Rancic shows how their innovations paved the way for contemporary electronic and pop artists—from Caribou and Grimes to The Halluci Nation and Kaytranada—and for the digital production environments that shape the music of Drake, The Weeknd, and Justin Bieber. In doing so, A Nation of Tinkerers reframes electronic music as a key site for understanding Canada’s cultural identity, technological imagination, and artistic legacy. Expansive, incisive, and richly detailed, the book provides an essential account of how Canada’s early electronic musicians and inventors helped build the sonic world we now take for granted.
Stuart Nicholson
Kirk Walker Graves
Tim Mohr
Lester Bangs
Simon McMurdo
Mitch L. Ryan
Simon Reynolds
Chris Hillman, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Scott B. Bomar
Grant Mcphee
Mattias Lundberg
Barry Walters
Richard Bowes
Angela Pearson, Mat Brooks, Paul Tanter
Afua Hirsch
Declan Donnellan
Christiane Paul
John Davies
Giuseppe Verdi
Lang Lang
Sir Simon Jenkins
Penelope Roskell
Fanny Waterman
Trinity College London
Sarah Easter Collins
Frida Skybäck
Liz Moore
Colleen Hoover
Kristin Fägerskjöld
Armando Lucas Correa
Sharon Bolton
Ruth Lillegraven
Santa Montefiore
Kelly Rimmer
Martha Hall Kelly
Svenja O'Donnell
Nathan Harris
Holly Jackson
Louise Boije af Gennäs
Tina Norin
Kristin Fägerskjöld
Pernilla Lindroos
Anna Lönnqvist
Jessie Burton
Malin Nordström
Marc Levy
Emma Donoghue
Snezana Lindskog, Andie Lindskog
Tony Samuelsson
Andrev Walden
Tina Harnesk
Kathrine Nedrejord
Anthony Doerr
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Lauren Groff
Claire Messud
Claire Lynch
Sebastian Barry
Ray Celestin
Simon Stranger
Alice Munro
Linda Boström Knausgård
Marit Kapla
Ulf Stark
Sarah Easter Collins
Liz Moore
Ursula Scavenius
Colleen Hoover
Michel Jean
