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Dead Obies position themselves in a globalized discourse, as defined by Monica Heller and Normand Labrie, a linguistic ideology that is built upon bilingualism and cultural hybridization as economic assets and traits of a new francophone identity. The group is at the junction of symbols and texts from the musical style they explore, American hip hop, and a language and places inherited from the people they grew up in, the Québécois people. The confluence of multiple cultures in their songs allow them to create their own vocabulary and imaginary, which mark their cultural authenticity.
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Joumalist for the newspaper “L'Évangéline” between 1938 and 1943, Joseph-Thomas LeBlanc published a column, “Nos vieilles chansons acadiennes”, which allowed him to collect some 1,340 folksong texts. He was ardently encouraged in his quest by folklorists Marius Barbeau, Luc Lacourcière and Father Anselme Chiasson, with whom he maintained correspondance which provided a wealth of information. This correspondance as well as the quality of his song collection lead us to believe that, were it not for his premature death in 1943, Joseph-Thomas LeBlanc would have become a major figure amongst Acadian folksong collectors.