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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The 90s Part 8: The CanRock Revolution
Description: Canada is now the sixth-largest music market in the world…only the US., Japan, the UK, Germany and France are bigger…not bad, considering that we’re living right next door to the biggest exporter of popular culture in the known universe—and considering that unlike Japan, Germany and France, most of our domestic music industry isn’t isolated and protected because of language…
I mean, the whole world consumes English-language music…what’s the market for Japanese music outside Japan?...or German music outside of Germany?...
Then there’s the matter of population…of those top six nation...