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Popular songs tell the stories of the daily lives of social groups. They help individuals find their place in the world and help them to develop a political identity, thereby creating a collective imaginary. In his article about popular music in Québec, Piroth (2008) points out how French folk songs have helped reinforce a distinct Quebecois identity vis-à-vis the majority Anglo-Canadian culture. According to Piroth, although the American pop style is still the most listened to musical genre in Québec, the presence of French pop music in media and public performances always attests to its importance in the shared cultural heritage of the Quebecois. In this article, we study another example of a musical genre in the French-speaking world in order to examine the complex relationships between popular music and regional identities; more specifically we look at Réunion Island (a French department situated in the Indian Ocean) and the practice of maloya as a symbol of reunion in connection with the French culture of the metropolis. Using a cultural studies' perspective, we explore how “political demonstrations of the cultural and cultural demonstrations of the political” crystalize within this dynamic form of popular music.
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The composer Yoshihisa Taïra (1937-2005) seeks - in his composition - to achieve a cultural synthesis between France, where he was trained and lived, and Japan, his country of origin. He then uses meditation as a musical theme to free himself from the intellectualization and verbalization of music, with the aim of returning to listening as a musical essence. Using the concept of ma (emptiness), inspired by Zen Buddhist thought, Taïra manages to find a position balanced with the aesthetic context of French postmodernity represented by Jean-François Lyotard. This article therefore delves into what meditation is for Taïra as a cultural synthesis, analyzing from a musical and philosophical point of view the possibility of the existence of an ideological crossroads between these two cultures that would incite the composer to return to the inspiration of Japanese culture, with the help of the thought stemming from Kitarô Nishida's Logique du lieu.
Keywords: Yoshihisa Taïra, méditation, écoute, zen, Yoshihisa Taïra, meditation, listening, Zen
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Keywords: canon musical classique, féminisme, histoire des femmes, mémoire culturelle, musique classique, classical music, classical music canon, cultural memory, feminism, women's history