ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the international circulation of Canadian musical stardom during a period extending from 1990 to the mid-2000s. It is focused on the careers and extraordinary success during this period of three performing artists who were born and began their careers in Canada – Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette, and Shania Twain. Their success, the chapter suggests, marked a period in popular musical history in which Canada was represented within international music markets by high-profile female solo performers, even as the domain of solo female performance, across transnational musical markets was represented, at its highest levels, by Canadians. The ‘feminisation’ of Canadian musical celebrity during this period is set in contrast to the masculine-dominated character of celebrity in Canada in the adjacent fields of cinema and comedy.
