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C’est là un ouvrage de référence qui présente la recherche sur la musique, les genres et les sexualités, et plus largement la vie musicale non dominante au Québec depuis le dernier quart du XIXe siècle jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Issu des travaux réalisés en 202-2022 par le pôle universitaire DIG! Différences et inégalités de genre dans la musique au Québec (D!G), un réseau interdisciplinaire et intersectoriel qui réunit les chercheur·ses, publics, artistes et autres professionnel·les de la musique qui s’intéressent à cette thématique, l’ouvrage comprend une revue de la littérature et une bibliographie de plus de 800 ressources scientifiques.

Muzion a été parmi les tout premiers groupes de rap québécois à faire résonner une parole locale distinctive. Il le faisait dans un français mâtiné d’anglais et de créole haïtien, multipliant les registres et faisant des emprunts à encore d’autres langues. Cet article se penche sur les chansons du premier album du groupe, Mentalité moune morne, à partir de son hétérolinguisme et des questions d’appartenance que celui-ci soulève. Il examine la manière dont Muzion entrelace les langues, mais aussi les interpellations, défaisant l’association entre langue et identité. Le groupe s’adresse ainsi à la fois à une communauté immigrante locale (d’abord haïtienne, mais également pluriethnique et racisée) qu’il québécise, et à une communauté québécoise élargie qu’il pluralise. Le rap permet en outre à ses membres de faire entendre leurs voix individuelles distinctes, notamment grâce à des usages différenciés de la palette plurilingue du groupe. Ce faisant, ce sont les notions même d’appartenance et de communauté que Muzion se trouve à refaçonner, à l’encontre de toute forme d’homogénéisation, de figement ou de stéréotype.

Dans les années 1980, après ses études auprès de Gilles Tremblay, Isabelle Panneton fait la rencontre de Philippe Boesmans lors d’un passage du compositeur belge à Montréal. Impressionnée par sa musique, elle se rendra en Belgique pour y suivre des leçons de composition avec lui de 1984 à 1987. Cette période sera déterminante pour la compositrice, ouvrant toute grande la porte à l’émergence de sa personnalité musicale. Ce texte retrace les moments forts du passage d’Isabelle Panneton chez le compositeur belge et met en lumière les liens qui les unissent, en guise de prélude à l’analyse de son trio Les îles pour violon, violoncelle et piano.

The documentary Show Girls, directed by Meilan Lam, makes an unprecedented contribution to the history of jazz and Black women jazz dancers in Montréal, Quebec, and to the conversation of jazz in Canada. Show Girls offers a glimpse into the lives of three Black women dancers of the 1920s–1950s. This essay asks what the lives of Black women dancers were like and how they navigated their career paths in terms of social and economic opportunities and barriers. I seek to better understand three points: (1) the gap in the study of jazz that generally excludes and/or separates dance and singing from the music; (2) the use of dance as a way to commercialize, sell, and give visual and conceptual meaning to jazz; (3) the importance of the Black body and the role of what I would define as “Afro- culture” in producing the ingenious and creative genre of jazz. My study suggests there is a dominant narrative of jazz, at least in academic literature, that celebrates one dimension of jazz as it was advertised in show business, and that bringing in additional components of jazz provides a counternarrative, but also a restorative, whole and more authentic story of jazz and its origins. More specifically, by re- exploring jazz as a whole culture that relies on music, song, and dance, this essay explores three major ideas. First, Black women dancers played a significant role in the success of jazz shows. Second, they articulated stories of self, freedom, and the identity of the New Negro through jazz culture and dance. Third, Black women’s bodies and art were later crystallized into images that further served to sell jazz as a product of show business.

An article from Circuit, on Érudit.

Quebec-born playwright Chantal Bilodeau has been responding to the challenges of dramatizing anthropogenic climate change by developing an eight-part Arctic Cycle, each play of which is set in one of the nations that claims Arctic territory. Sila (2014) immerses audiences into a complex network of humans, animals, and mythical beings crisscrossing the Canadian Arctic. These movements circle around the Inuit concept of sila, which is the life-giving force of breath and voice. Thus, the sonic world of Sila focuses on voices speaking words, on performance poetry, and on the sounds of breath and wind. Bilodeau’ s second Arctic Cycle play, Forward (2016), addresses the long-term impact of Fridtjof Nansen’s polar exploration of the 1890s on Norway’s economy and society. In terms of sound, Forward features multiple musical performances rangingfrom traditional songs to European opera arias and Lieder to contemporary Norwegian electro-pop. The sonic features of both plays stress interdependence across time, space, as well as (non-)human, earthly, and metaphysical realms. Sila and Forward address climate change in a non-universalizing manner which promotes a heterarchical (rather than hierarchical) aesthetic fit for a growing awareness of planetary relationality.

In the present academic research connecting geography and music,a real gap remains in the study of different issues associated with both music and geography and, particularly, to the recent music geographies. This paper advances a new geographical approach in music geography highlighting the relevance of time and space in music, in the artist‟s outstanding contribution to music and in their recognition from the local to the global. Particularly the study is focused on one of the most emblematic music artists of the world, analyzing through a spatio-temporal investigation the prestigious awards achieved by the singer Celine Dion, since this singer remains both a real music legend and an iconic artist gaining multiple awards and thoroughly appreciated and admired for her outstanding contribution to music and global popular culture. The research bases on such specific methods as internet research, visual methodologies, bibliographical analysis and geographic information systems (GIS). The latter is used to provide a professional map illustrating the spatio-temporal distribution of the multiple awards received by Dion the artist. The findings of the research highlight the highest scale of appreciation an artist can receive. The results of the study also suggest that the outstanding contribution of the greatest artists of the world, acknowledged by the highest national, international and global forums, provide significant information about their artistic involvement in the global popular culture. They have a strong relevance both in space and in time, thus labeling different cultural decades and distinct places and spaces throughout the world.

Perle Abbrugiati's article explores Coeur vagabond/Coraçao vagabundo, the fourth record by the French-Brazilian artist Bïa, released in 2006. The bilingual album comprises an equal number of Brazilian-Portuguese adaptations from French songs and French adaptations from Brazilian songs. The aim of the present article is to identify the strategies applied in the translation of songs. To this end, the article's author herself uses translation within the framework of a comparative approach, confronting Bïa's translations with her own literal translations (not suitable to be sung) of the original lyrics. The objective is not to trace 'mistranslations' but to point out in how many different and intricate ways a translation can be faithful while being creative, and in what way and to what degree the song translator may take the liberty of 're-semantisation'.

Between music geography and iconic music legends, a strong connection has been established in terms of spatial and temporal analysis of popular music and the representation of national identities in the contemporary global cultures of popular music. The existing literature unveils a gap in the analysis of music geography and famous musicians, real global music icons identified with particular cultures. This paper argues that such music legends must be geographically studied to unveil their outstanding contribution to the world music cultures. Against such a background, a geographical approach that takes Canadian singer Céline Dion as a case studyis developed. The research aims to analyse Dion’s outstandingcontribution to global music culture in both spatial and temporal terms. Based on the music industry emergence, the paper focuses on how and why Céline Dion appeared in global music culture and examines her outstanding contribution with specific referenceto music cartographies and statistical research.National identity and related cultural issues beyond the music, lyrics, and performances are also addressed.The empirically led study is based on a multi-method approach and makes use of statistical data analysis, GIS methods, biographicalinquiry, the analysis of lyrics and visual methodologies,all suggesting that Dion’s contribution has greatly influenced the global popular music culture of the last few decades.Although the topics in question cannot be fully discussed within the limits of this paper, it highlights the importance of these issues and calls for further in-depth research to provide a new critical understanding of the intimate connections between popular music, legendary music icons and the recent perspectives in music geographies

Dix ans après la parution de La renarde et le mal peigné,quatre cents nouvelles lettres échangées entre Gérald Godin (1938-1994) et Pauline Julien (1929-1998) ont été découvertes dans leurs fonds d’archives respectifs. Soixante-dix d’entre elles ont été choisies par Emmanuelle Germain et Jonathan Livernois, dans cette édition qui vient compléter le portrait forgé en 2009. On y retrouvera les débuts de la relation entre le journaliste et la chanteuse, les longues tournées en Europe de Pauline Julien, la maladie de Godin, puis celle, en filigrane, de Julien. De nouveaux aspects apparaîtront également : l’érotisme de plusieurs de leurs échanges ; les rapports d’amitié ; les aléas d’une vie familiale où un jeune homme de vingt-cinq ans doit s’occuper de deux adolescents, alors que Julien doit concilier sa vie professionnelle et sa vie de mère ; l’épuisement des dernières années, tandis que les tournées européennes sont de plus en plus difficiles pour Julien. Les lettres réunies ici permettront également aux lectrices et aux lecteurs de revivre de grands moments de l’histoire québécoise, vue à la hauteur de ses acteurs : le « Vive le Québec libre ! » lancé par Pauline Julien à Niamey, en 1969, interrompant le ministre fédéral Gérard Pelletier ; la crise d’Octobre et l’emprisonnement sur lequel on ne reviendra guère ; la campagne électorale de 1976, l’enthousiasme et la victoire, inattendue ; l’engagement du député puis ministre Gérald Godin. Ce n’est donc pas un hasard si ce petit livre est sous-titré « Fragments de correspondance amoureuse et politique ». La suture des deux univers, de l’intime et du public, de l’amour et du politique, y est plus claire que jamais.