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This article seeks to understand how Québécois popular music became a national cultural symbol during the 1960s and 1970s and how this social construction contributed to redefining collective identity at the time. It sheds light on the role of external cultural influences and on relations with other national communities by studying various musical styles and attempts to develop careers abroad. The article analyses the discourse of the cultural press in order to show how so-called authentic Québécois songs were distinguished from popular music of merely commercial value. The cultural press played an important role in the construction of the collectivity's identity by providing it with an image of itself and of its culture that corresponded both to its reality and to some of its aspirations.
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This article examines the relations between literature and the song. More specifically, it analyzes Richard DesJardins's « Tu m'aimes-tu » from the vantage point of the semiotics of reception, with special attention to the relation between music and text. This song, which brought its author into the public eye, constitutes at its core a recital that draws together the narrative strands implied in the nine other pieces in the album of which it is part. Starting from a number of discrete givens relative to space, time and diegesis, the general schema underlying the piece can be reconstructed. Following the unfolding of the song as it impresses the hearer at its first hearing, the author examines the means whereby the sense of the song; is constructed out of the minimal information that it provides.