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Along with his friends Wilfrid Lemoyne and Suzanne Gagnon, Serge Garant stayed in Paris from October, 1951 to May, 1952. While discovering the innumerable cultural treasures of the French capital, he attended the legendary classes in analysis given by Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory. He also studied with Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger, one of the city's leading music pedagogues. This would prove to be an important stage in Serge Garant's musical training, as witnessed not only by his correspondence, but also by his compositions that date from this time. This article highlights some of the salient moments of Serge Garant's Parisian sojourn, such as his discovery of the music of Messiaen and Pierre Boulez, and assesses the impact of these experiences on his subsequent career.

The manuscript Annales Musicales du Petit-Cap, now in the Archives du Séminaire in Quebec City, contains melodies and lyrics of 131 songs. It was compiled by Mgr. Thomas-Étienne Hamel, one of the most eminent figures in church and university circles in his era. Despite his importance, biographical sources mention only briefly, if at all, his keen interest in music, while none of the commentators on this impressive compilation appear to have examined it closely. The first 66 songs in the collection belong to the repertoire of traditional or folk music. The second part of the volume consists of 65 pieces, among them chansons, romances, and even vaudevilles, drawn mostly from popular French repertoires of the time, among which eleven have attributions of composer and/or lyricist. A detailed account therefore suggests that the volume is really two volumes with two distinct intentions. The Archives catalogue dates the collection “between 1865 and 1908” but close perusal suggests a shorter compilation period, in the mid-1860s. The article is an appreciation and critical study, rather than an analysis along ethnomusicological lines.

This article profiles five organizations that have been advocating for equity in Quebec music since 2017 : MTL Women in Music, Femmes* en Musique, Lotus collective MTL Coop, shesaid.so MTL and D!G Différences et inégalités de genre dans la musique au Québec. In line with a long tradition of critical work in feminist historiography, the authors first account for the diversity of feminist mobilizations in Quebec music beyond the #metoo “waves” which have received significant media attention over the past five years (2017–2022). In the second part, the authors detail the development of the D!G network, a feminist collaborative research partnership launched in April 2021 by Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, and its contributions to both Quebec's music industry and to feminist partnership research epistemologies and methodologies.

Keywords: Mobilisations féministes, Recherche partenariale, Québec, femmes, musique, feminist mobilizations, partnership research, Quebec, women, music

In recent years, public bodies in OECD countries have been facing a paradox. In their quest for performance, they have embarked on reforms that ultimately result in public action losing its meaning for their agents and users. In order to understand this paradox, we shall examine an intervention research initiative conducted over four years in a commune in Ile-de-France. It enables us to propose a quadratic model of the performance of public action, presenting it as a social construct driven by governance tensions that are themselves fuelled by different viewpoints.

Keywords: Action publique, Performance publique, Tensions de gouvernance publique, Points de vue, Recherche-intervention, Sens, Public Action, Public Performance, Public Governance Tensions, Viewpoints, Intervention Research, Meaning, Acción pública, Rendimiento público, Tensiones de gobernanza pública, Puntos de vista, Investigación-intervención, Significado

This article aims to deepen the understanding of the conditions of stability of international joint ventures evolving in an uncertain environment. Drawing on a longitudinal study, conducted between 2006-2016, of 7 cases of joint ventures between Multinationals and Tunisian companies, the results show that strategic orientation, organizational learning and dependency are the drivers or the obstacles to the development of a stable internal context. The characteristics of the latter catalyze or inhibit the negative effects of an uncertain environment on the stability of the IJV.

Keywords: Joint-venture internationale, Stabilité, Contexte interne, Environnement incertain, Étude longitudinale, International joint-venture, Stability, Internal context, Uncertain environment, Longitudinal study, Joint Venture Internacional, Estabilidad empresarial, Contexto interno, Entorno incierto, Estudio longitudinal

Rural areas are changing: they are forging new relationships with the urban world. The planet is urbanizing: it is the seat ofmany flows. These dynamics, which extend over large spaces, obscure those that take place nearby, at low density, in territories where, however, we are witnessing a proliferation of initiatives. However, these are living territories which transform the world, by articulating the urban and the rural, by assuming a mutual solidarity, by crossing the limits and the borders. To support these dynamics of change, territorial engineering must promote inter-territoriality, the integration of scales and worlds, and the recognition of social and territorial innovations. But even more, it must involve all the stakeholders, to give life to the territories, by building a shared vision of the territory and implementing collective actions, by anchoring them in the territory, and by making them visible and sensitive. This conceptual framework of territorial engineering for, by and with rural territories is the result of ongoing partnership research with the territory of Grand Clermont and the Livradois-Forez Regional Natural Park, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in France, which “invents the territories of tomorrow” around its territorial food project. There are new avenues to explore, which challenge the classic processes of scientific production and construction of action. The rigor of the methodological routes constructed and the assumed diversity of the devices allow us to build in genericity. The imagination values this diversity and produces the future of the territories.

The objective of our research is to understand the forms that work engagement can take in a low-valued profession such as that of garbage collector. In this article, work engagement of garbage collectors is discussed with reference to the work of Alexandra Bidet. Through a mixed methodology, we explore how garbage collectors develop internal and external valuations in the relationship they have with their activities. A typological analysis makes it possible to grasp the diversity of the types of work engagement, referring to its sociological dimension: cooperation, appropriation of autonomy, mobilization of the body, technicality, and forms of adherence to professional standards. This original approach to work engagement criticizes its approach in management science, where work engagement is often understood from the perspective of a worker idealized by the employer rather than that of the actual worker.

Keywords: engagement au travail, sociologie de l'activité, rapport au travail, typologie, méthodes mixtes, éboueurs, sale boulot, work engagement, workplace studies, work relationship, typology, mixed methods, garbage collectors, dirty work, del trabajo al compromiso, sociología de la actividad, relación con el trabajo, tipología, métodos mixtos, recolectores de basura, trabajo sucio