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It was nearly 130 years ago that, with the invention of the phonograph, humankind etched sound for the first time onto matter. Over the years, an entire industry has been created around this device, which has had a major impact on the planet's musical destiny. In its present dematerialized state, music can now be transmitted at the speed of light, at all places and at all times. The author presents a historical survey of the different sound recording media, their evolution and development.
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SummaryThe author has examined the first exhibition of national scope dedicated to Quebec popular music, Je vous entend chanter, as a key area for the study of the mechanism by which this type of music functions as a pivotal point in the production of facets of citizenship related to culture and identity. The documents and artifacts making up the exhibition, as well as the media coverage it received, serve to examine the material, institutional and discursive conditions which come together to make the history of popular music the history of the "Quebec people". The analysis explores the complex interplay of memories that promote the contrasting ways in which the event states, names and relates the place of popular Quebec music, and, in so doing, the forms of allegiance, identification and belonging which are linked to it.
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The article looks at how orchestral writing has become a natural choice for Quebec composers born at the end of the 1960s and after, with the orchestra as a favoured tool of expression in the new millennium. This choice elicits questions about Quebec composers' relationship with the musical past. It examines how their range of experience and expectation relates to aspects of historicity in which they now operate and create, aspects constrained by the present difficulty of living by one's art, of performing and enduring, which its temporal imperative. The article references, among many others, composers like Simon Bertrand, Nicole Lizée, Julien Bilodeau and Éric Champagne, and explores how the relation to time has now been freed from a caricature of the métier through a determinist recounting of the musical past.
Keywords: compositeur, historicité, orchestre, présentisme, Québec, composer, historicity, orchestra, presentness, Quebec
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