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This article explores the wide circulation in audiovisual media of the song Fortunate Son (CCR, 1969) and its effects on various memory and affective registers. The song's association with the Vietnam War and the ways in which video games contribute to our perception of historical events are explored through an analysis of the first-person shooter game Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010).
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Most of the songs in the old tradition can be found in folklore collections from the 19th and 20th centuries, in France as well as in French America. It is an undeniable demonstration of their transatlantic movement. One of them, a criminal lament recounting a triple murder, did not, however, receive the typological recognition it deserves. Conrad Laforte classified it in his catalogue of Chansons sur des timbres (contrafactum) and considered it a local song. However, an in-depth examination of the recorded versions, their territorial distribution, their themes and narrative motifs, and their comparison with a 17th version recently found in Brittany, show that not only is it of French origin, but that it unquestionably belongs to the ancient repertoire. The central motif of the triple murder is also found at the heart of a children's song that is totally out of tune with the seriousness of the subject, and presents a striking contrast with the lament.
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