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One of the main characteristics of popular music is still the reusing of musical material borrowed from a multitude of styles and trends (remix, adaptation, sampling, etc.). This practice is called transphonography, and stems from intertextuality, a concept developed by Gérard Genette, a literary scholar, and adapted to music by musicologist Serge Lacasse. In this article, the author references transphonography to study the various musical and thematic transformations in the gothic metal symphonic group Therion's reworking of ABBA's song “Summer Night City”. Along the transformations of musical elements in order to adapt ABBA's music to Therion's aesthetics, some transformations induce a shift in the very significance of the song.
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Keywords: chanson autochtone, rap, Samian, réappropriation culturelle, résilience, Résistance
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AbstractThe expression “voice that presents” makes it possible to think about the various ways in which films of the period when talking cinema became widespread may have continued the tradition of the film lecturer into the 1930s. Analysis of film sequences helps us to discover the ways in which orality was introduced to films of this period. At the beginning of French films we find humorous “announcer voices” in the music hall tradition, “dramatic voices” to create suspense, “pedagogical voices” with a professorial air, and “singing voices” by virtue of their intonation or accompanying music. Setting out this typology enables the author to establish a connection between films from the early 1930s and stage entertainment from before the war of 1914; in both cases, it appears that the presenting voice helped viewers “enter into” the work.
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Le Credo épique au péril du genre. Femmes orantes et adresses à la Vierge dans les chansons de geste
More informationThe so-called “prayers of greatest peril” are considered constitutive of epic diction. Uttered at moments of heightened narrative intensity, they may underscore the anguish of agony or the fear that grips heroes in the face of an unequal battle—but they also arise on the lips of heroines in danger. The fact that chansons de geste attribute highly similar prayers to both male and female characters invites further reflection. One may also be struck by the prominent role of invocations to the Virgin Mary in these credos, which bear witness to faith in the divine plan of salvation for humankind. The question, then, is to what extent gender distinctions are operative in understanding these pieces of devotional eloquence. It will be observed that the epic credos of female characters in chansons de geste adhere—without notable alteration—to the conventions of the genre, while the addresses to Saint Mary also resonate with expressions specific to Marian piety.
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After Sex-shop (1972) and Je t'aime moi non plus (1976), the collaboration between Serge Gainsbourg and the director-producer Claude Berri reached its culmination in Je vous aime, released at the beginning of the 1980s. This movie tells the story of Alice (Catherine Deneuve), a seductive young woman who fails to thrive in her successive romantic relationships, undermined by daily life and the wear and tear of time. Constructed as a succession of flashbacks, the narrative revolves around five original songs with music and lyrics by Gainsbourg, who also took on the role of Simon, the central figure of the destructive lover. With the exception of a piano version of ‘La Fautive', a central theme associated with the character of Alice, these songs, which the viewer discovers at different stages of progress, are mainly diegetic and highlight the relationship to time, through a mirror game between artistic creation and the vagaries of existence. They also create an unsettling confusion between fiction and reality, due especially to the fact that the singer, who had gotten back on track a year earlier with the album Aux armes et caetera (1979), appeared true to the image he was conveying to the public, that of a brilliant and provocative creator, endowed with a scathing sense of humour serving a misogyny in tune with the times.
Keywords: Serge Gainsbourg, Claude Berri, Je vous aime, bande-son, chanson, Serge Gainsbourg, Claude Berri, Je vous aime, soundtrack, song
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