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Frank Zappa is one of the most significant artists of our era. However, while he enjoys great esteem around the world, his work remains largely mistrusted as much by the media as by artistic and intellectual circles. One reason for this is the particular position of the composer vis-à-vis contemporary culture. His musical language is located upon an intersection of several different styles, and it manifests connotations from multi-media, visual, literary, industrial and environmental worlds.Zappa could deftly manipulate cultural references all the while developing a very personal style that asserted itself the whole length of his compositional life. This article retraces the essential traits of Zappa's musical style through analysis of one of his last works: a piece for synclavier entitled Dio Fa, excerpted from his opera Civilization Phaze III.
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Masterpiece of composer and performer René Lussier, Le trésor de la langue revolves around three main axes: its musical and linguistic approach shows the singularity of the work, which translates spoken language into instrumental music while also arranging it a in variety of musical styles; its documentary approach focuses on the composer's travel story, between Montreal and Quebec City, and offers witness of the making of the work; finally, the historical approach ties together both the material collected and arranged by the composer, and the historical and political issues addressed in the work. In so doing, its propels to the front scene major xxth century events, such as the debate around sovereignty and Quebec's difficult identity issues.
Keywords: archives folkloriques, québécois, débat politique, musiques actuelles, film sonore, folk archives, quebecer, political debate, current music, sound film
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Orality defines the format of the song. This article examines lis historical character within the context of Québec (1960-1980) and with special reference to the singers, the Osstidcho show, Québec performing groups and the lyrics sung by female singers. In song, spoken language is as it were appropriated by literary expression. Since Osstidcho, however, the characteristic earmark of the Québec song has been to give up literary language in favour of popular idiom. Performing groups, for example, have relinquished their use of meter in order to emphasize the accentual nature of French, whose pulsating movement expresses a more explicit North American sense of rhythm. In their bid for complete creation, female singers for their part have questioned the link between the body and orality. This fact has not been without consequences for the use of the French language. Since 1980, it is thus through the individual voice that many songs have found their «musical personality».
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Through online networks, Christian metal fans and musicians have developed diverse strategies for balancing their religious and subcultural identities in the face of opposition from the broader global metal community and the conservative Christian right. To investigate these diverse contexts, I apply theories of identity formation from psychoanalysis (Lacan 2006 [1966]) to three instances where Christians used metal for worship : Cesare Bonizzi, a metal vocalist and Capuchin monk, “metal mass” services in Finland and Colombia, and Christian extreme metal bands such as Mortification (Christian death metal) and Horde (unblack metal). By comparing the musical and verbal discourses of these groups with fan debates, I investigate how Christian metal fans and musicians perceive their musical and religious Others and how these perceptions influence their senses of self.
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Through an ethnography conducted in the home studios of French techno artists, this research analyzes the articulation between contemporary digital and analog instruments in music creation practices. The study, based on in-depth interviews and in situ observations with five artists, reveals that rather than manifesting a binary opposition between analog and digital technologies, these practices reflect a pragmatic approach adapted to technical and economic constraints. Analysis of discourses on authenticity, recurring in the interviews, demonstrates that they reflect fewer concerns about sound quality than questions about the artistic legitimacy of a new generation of producers, in a musical genre historically associated with the use of analog instruments.
Keywords: analogique, musique, numérique, studio, techno, analog, digital, music, studio, techno
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On February 3, 1930, at the Château Ramezay, Victor Morin, president of the Archaeological and Numismatic Society, welcomed several dignitaries of the city of Montreal at a dinner in music, a large meal conceived as a operetta libretto, in order to raise funds for the maintenance of Château Ramezay. Between 1930 and 1952, he offered nine of these dinners bringing together between 200 and 2 000 guests, members of various societies or delegates to major congresses. This article follows the evolution of Montreal sociality as shown by these events, which reveal a unique form of ‘‘associative theatre''.
Keywords: Victor Morin, théâtre de société, socialité, gastronomie, Montréal, association, dîners en musique, opérette, philanthropie, Victor Morin, associative theatre, sociability, gastronomy, Montreal, association, musical dinners, operetta, philanthropy
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