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In the last five years, the Kashtin duo bas enjoyed remarkable success in Québec performing almost exclusively in their mother tongue.TheKashtin phenomenon affords a prime vantage point for surveying the progress of contemporary developments in popular music in Québec, whose complexity and impetus are thus revealed. Are Kashtin's popularity and special place in the Québec context an indication ofnew musical canons and emerging cultures? Posing this question at the outset, this article proceeds to delme some conceptual tools for the critical analysis of changing modes of discourse and changes in the power establishments, within which a redefinition of popular music, and of music in general, is taking shape in Québec.