Documents found
-
1295.More information
This paper examines a few aspects of the cultural history of country-western music in Quebec. The rural imagery of the songs, with their cowboys, their farms, their mountains, hides an important phenomenon; at its beginnings, the genre heavily relies on urban networks and urban cultural practices. This is especially important during the structuration of the genre, between 1942, when Roland Lebrun records his first songs, and 1958, when the genre finally has its own independent record companies. During these 16 years, among other strategies, country-western artists use the media to start and promote their careers. Here, the radio plays an important role; with its openness to amateurs, it allows these artists to become professionals and to develop an intimate relationship with their audience. Recording studios provide them with a regular income between touring seasons. From one studio to another, Montreal, as well as important industrial cities of the time (Drummondville, Trois-Rivières), is an important protagonist in the structuration and the dissemination of the new genre, which deeply relies on urbanity and modernity despite the traditional image it tries to project at the same time.
-
1296.
-
1297.More information
This bibliography completes the one that was published in 1986 in the author's work Serge Garant et la révolution musicale au Québec (Louise Courteau éditrice).
-
1298.