35. Common Rider (w/ Brian Fauteux)
Listen to this podcast; never get stung! Checkered Past welcomes University of Alberta Associate Professor of Popular Music and Music Studies, Brian Fauteux to discuss the brief but explosive career of Ska trio Common Rider. Rob and Celine dig in on Brian's history with Ska before delving in to his scholarly research with streaming and it's impact on the music scene and music libraries. Then, the trio dig in on Common Rider's history from Jesse Michael's upbringing to his post-Op Ivy life to the unexpected success of CR and their varied and wonderful trio of albums.
Brian Fauteux
Brian Fauteux is Associate Professor of Popular Music and Media Studies. He holds a PhD in Communication from Concordia (Montreal) and has completed a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies music industries and music radio, often from the interrelated perspectives of cultural studies, history, and policy and is currently a co-investigator on a SSHRC-funded research project that investigates copyright and cultural labour in the digital music industries. His book, Music in Range: The Culture of Canadian Campus Radio (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015), explores the history of Canadian campus radio, highlighting the factors that have shaped its close relationship with local music and culture. The book traces how campus radio practitioners have expanded stations from campus borders to surrounding musical and cultural communities by acquiring FM licenses and establishing community-based mandates.
-University of Alberta
