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This imaginary interview, given to the author by this great musical thinker, raises many issues concerning simulacra, masked truths, make-believe and the hoax which may be postmodernity. The Austrian writer leans toward a modernist topology that moves along forests, prairies, categories and socio-musical values typical of the end of this millenium.
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The second part of a three-part interview from 1996—the first part appears in Circuit, vol. 9, no 2 (1998)—concerns tense events subsequent to a keynote speech delivered by the late F. L. Niemantz during an international conference in Montreal. Portions of his then new book are presented, and he reflects upon diverse topics such as popular culture, liberty, composer-journalists of the 19th century, memory structures, artistic identity, and superabundant melodies. Niemantz also elucidates upon the erroneous reasoning of his teacher and guide, Theodor W. Adorno.
Keywords: aristos, liberté, musique populaire, postmoderne, révolution, aristos, liberty, popular music, postmodern, revolution
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AbstractThis article gives an account of the career of Québec folk singer, Jacques Labrecque (1917-1995). From the late 1930s to the beginning of the 1990s, Labrecque performed a folk-inspired repertoire throughout Québec and abroad, gradually abandoning the image of a lyrical artist and taking on that of a colourful character who evoked folk tradition. Throughout his career, Labrecque maintained a love/hate relationship with the artistic community, university institutions — from whom he appropriated material — and government agencies. A review of his career also sheds light on the ambiguity of the term “folklorist” as it is commonly used in reference to singers who have a profile similar to that of Labrecque. His repertoire is presented briefly, as are his accomplishments as an editor of vocal works.
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Through the lens of the ethnomusicologist, the author of this article provides food for thought about the work of this great master and raises some questions about his methodological position and his conception of ethnographic analysis. Without questioning the fertility and richness of the French anthropologist's proposals, the article highlights some of Lévi-Strauss's positions that deserve to be revisited and, at the very least, qualified if we want them to accord with the principles of contemporary ethnomusicology. The author focuses to this end on three aspects of the thought of Lévi-Strauss: the importance of place, and the concepts of time and change.
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Silence is systematically associated with the situation of the deaf (those born deaf, the so-called deaf-mutes) for good and bad reasons. Bad, because the reality of the deaf is far from being “silent”. Good, because the deaf make a certain kind of silence resonate in the ear of the non-deaf, especially the relationship between the body and the signifiant, exploiting silence as a pulsional presence of the body in the enunciation of language and thus a pulsional presentification of the voice. Paradoxically, it is the relationship between music and silence that is thereby clarified.
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In the genre economy of the 1930s, the major role assigned to the novel was legitimized, among other things, by the publication of Maria Chapdelaine. Poets, however, were still well-known figures, present in periodicals and cultural institutions. The author's hypothesis is that radio—which allowed a wider public to hear their poetry and sometimes even their voice—is the element that most clearly shows the importance of poets in public space. She examines poetry broadcasts hosted by Robert Choquette and L'heure provinciale to understand the status of poetry and poets in Quebec society in the 1930s, and the role played by the oralization of poetry through radio broadcasts in making poetry accessible and providing it with legitimacy.