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This essay situates the goals of the Loi sur le droit d'auteur (Canadian Copyright Act) against the practice of composers who incorporate pre-existing music into their own works. Although the law does take into account certain exceptions to the exclusive rights of the author, Canadian courts have still not clearly defined the parameters of artistic appropriation. In considering the phenomenon of appropriation, and looking more closely at its specificity in the musical world, this essay seeks to measure the flexibility of Canadian copyright law as it has addressed some of the oldest approaches to creation. It shows that in assessments of the juridical implications of appropriation one of the main criteria remains the nature of the change introduced and its originality, in addition to issues raised by the CCH Canadian Ltd. affair.
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This article analyses the relation between the notions of territory and identity as they present themselves in discourses produced during the Congrès mondiaux acadiens (CMA or World Acadian Congresses). The CMAs, we argue, are emblematic of a process of “alter-territorialization,” territorializing identities other than through formal administrative borders. The territory, as defined by nationalist discourse during the CMA, is perceived primarily as the place where a process of community representation both possible, and constantly revised and remodelled through deliberation, collective action, commemoration, and socio-cultural movements that seek to direct it. In this way, the CMA plays a unique role in crystallizing a representation of Acadie that is both diasporic and situated. In this article, we focus mainly on the 2019 CMA. In addition to ethnographic fieldwork carried out during the various activities the 2019 CMA, we draw on the informational and promotional material produced by the CMA organizing committee. We also use data from a media analysis, a survey (N= 191) and semi-structured interviews (N=30). Territory and identity are central themes in each of these types of sources, to which we apply critical analysis in order to better understand the “Acadian territorial complex”.
Keywords: Arrighi, Berger, Traisnel, Congrès mondial acadien, Acadie, territoire, identité, discours, festivités, reconnaissance, francophonie, Arrighi, Berger, Traisnel, Congrès mondial acadien (World Acadian Congress), Acadie, territory, identity, festivities, discourse, recognition, francophonie, Arrighi, Berger, Traisnel, congreso mundial acadiense, Acadia, territorio, identidad, discurso, festividades, reconocimiento, francofonía
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AbstractIn this article, Pamela V. Sing examines writing that brings forth the importance of the connection between one's native or ancestral language and identity, even in speakers whose use of language is highly diglossic. The three writers studied here—Paulette Dubé, Sharon Proulx-Turner, and Joe Welsh—are historically linked with Western Canada's 19th-century Franco-Métis, whose culture and mores were subjected to harsh stigmatization beginning in 1885, the year in which the Métis were defeated at the Battle of Batoche and Louis Riel was put to death, having been convicted of high treason. For nearly a century—the years of the “great silence“—the Métis were Canada's forgotten people, and when they returned to public life, it was as English-speakers, for whom many of the ancestral traditions that defined their culture had slipped into oblivion. Contemporary writers of Franco-Métis ancestry engage in writing that, by recalling certain aspects of their heritage, subverts the reductive and demeaning stereotypes that have been inflicted on the Métis people for many long years. One manifestation of this trend is a culinary discourse that functions by transforming a cultural practice into a cultural code. Because the recollection of traditional dishes almost inevitably calls on words from the ancestral language, the resulting writings are hybrid texts, written primarily in English, but interspersed with tidbits of a primordial language that is both unforgettable and imperfectly remembered. The resulting writing is a meeting of two languages that is astonishingly poetic, innovative and traditional all at once.
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