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This article seeks to understand how Québécois popular music became a national cultural symbol during the 1960s and 1970s and how this social construction contributed to redefining collective identity at the time. It sheds light on the role of external cultural influences and on relations with other national communities by studying various musical styles and attempts to develop careers abroad. The article analyses the discourse of the cultural press in order to show how so-called authentic Québécois songs were distinguished from popular music of merely commercial value. The cultural press played an important role in the construction of the collectivity's identity by providing it with an image of itself and of its culture that corresponded both to its reality and to some of its aspirations.
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To get up onstage and make an audience laugh: what could be more common today, in Québec and elsewhere? But it wasn't always so commonplace. A long road was traveled to give us these comedians' solo shows that make so many Québécois happy. Indeed, all sorts of changes have punctuated the history of humor. This article aims to highlight the many spaces occupied by the comic monologue as an autonomous genre since its origins. It demonstrates how different spaces and several notable figures have contributed to the fashioning of the monologue, up to giving it its present form. Its thesis is that over the course of its history the monologue has tended to increase its comic effectiveness.
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