Oh What a Feeling: A Vital History of Canadian Music

Desmond Maley is the music librarian at the J.W. Tate Library,
Huntington College, Laurentian University and editor of the Newsletter
of the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and
Documentation Centres.

This coffee-table book is intended as a companion to the outstanding
compact-disc anthology Oh What a Feeling, which brings together 78 Juno
Award-winning Canadian pop music hits on four CDs. The Canadian
equivalent of the Grammys, the Junos have annually celebrated the
achievements of the Canadian music industry since 1971. The introduction
describes the early years and growth of Canadian popular music, while
the following chapters provide capsule synopses of each year’s awards,
along with a complete list of the winners from 1971 to 1995. The lists
are especially useful from a librarian’s perspective, but the abundant
trivia also helps make the book fun to read, as do the many photographs
and illustrations.