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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.

L'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal et son célèbre maestro Kent Nagano partent en tournée dans la grande toundra nordique du Québec pour visiter les communautés cries, innues et inuites, et partager avec eux un opéra de chambre autochtone où l'on apprend à l'homme blanc à rire et, par le fait même, à aimer davantage. Chaakapesh le périple du Fripon - écrit par Tomson Highway, composé par Matthew Ricketts et interprété par l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal - est l'exemple le plus probant et moderne de collaboration interculturelle.

Cette thèse se propose de faire une analyse du discours sur les représentations du féminin et les implications du sexe/genre dans la chanson québécoise contemporaine, à travers les œuvres et la persona de trois auteur·ice·s-compositeur·ice·s-interprètes (ACI): Ariane Moffatt, Pierre Lapointe et Philémon Cimon. Notre analyse part d’abord du constat que les chansons de Moffatt, Lapointe et Cimon figurent des sujets lyriques, dont la parole et le geste sont modulés par les enjeux énonciatifs que posent le lyrisme. Pour rendre compte de la spécificité de la chanson comme pratique poétique réunissant paroles, musique et interprétation, nous proposons de faire une étude sémantique des chansons pour chacun·e des ACI, en nous attardant dans un premier temps aux questions soulevées par le lyrisme, puis en faisant la somme des aspects relevant du sexe/genre présents dans leurs univers sonores respectifs avec le renfort de la théorie féministe et des études de genre, d’après une perspective postmoderne. Notre lecture cherche à souligner les reconduites et les poncifs liés au féminin, mais également à saisir les propositions et les configurations qui s’écartent des lieux communs, tant pour les modèles féminins valorisés que pour les modèles amoureux et les rapports sociaux de sexe et de genre suggérés par les chansons. La comparaison entre les chansons des trois artistes permet ainsi de dégager des points de convergence, tout en révélant les particularités de leurs œuvres.

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En plus d’offrir un portrait des productions culturelles queer au Québec tant francophones qu’anglophones, dont certaines autochtones, cet ouvrage s’attarde à révéler le caractère queer de celles qui ne le sont pas de facto. Il se présente comme un manuel de référence sur le sujet, avec des essais critiques – qui portent autant sur la littérature et le monde du spectacle que sur les arts médiatiques ou la presse gay – et des textes expérimentaux – fictions, dessins, récits autobiographiques. Plus de 27 œuvres de fiction publiées entre 1965 et 2017 y sont analysées sous différents aspects, avec des méthodologies diverses, mais toujours sous l’éclairage queer (un terme à la nature instable, paradoxale, que calque la forme éclatée de l’ouvrage). Du polyamour à l’inceste, en passant par le racisme, l’urbanité, le suicide, le non-désir d’enfant, l’alimentation ou les processus de production, le queer met en scène des personnages hétéros ou homosexuels, intersexués, cis, trans, travailleur·euse·s du sexe, gros et plusieurs autres… Cette juxtaposition d’états, de genres, de thèmes, de formes et de pratiques constitue l’une des forces de ce livre qui intéressera bien sûr un lectorat d’intellectuel·le·s et de personnes issues des communautés LGBTQIA2S+, mais pas seulement. Il deviendra, sans nul doute, une ressource indispensable pour l’enseignement de nouvelles perspectives dans le cadre des sciences humaines et sociales.

Three volunteer hosts and programmers of a feminist music show at a campus-community radio station, Anna Leventhal, Catherine McInnis, and Angela Wilson, sat down in 2008 to chat about feminist radio. They discussed the concept of a feminist music show and the possibilities and limitations of female-only spaces; the “fem-con” concept that campus-community radio stations be mandated to play a certain amount of music by women, in the same way they are mandated by the CRTC to play Canadian content; the transformative social and political potential of community radio; and the inclusion of trans and gender-nonconforming voices on the show.

Ageing and memory - two aspects of life everybody has to face eventually. The contributions to this volume explore the cultural mediations of these categories. Through a series of approaches focused on practices and acts of memory, narratives, reminiscence, representation and collective memory, they seek to better understand and critically reflect on how ageing is experienced in variegated ways across the lifespan. By covering a variety of phenomena, from biopics, music by the elderly, and artefacts, among other, they all contribute to further the understanding of memory as a cultural process always in the making - situated in particular contexts, and shaped by its material conditions of existence.

Though they no longer call themselves Top 40, popular music radio stations remain present on the dial today, complete with loud, mostly male DJs, hoping to attract a mainly female audi ence. Using the talk on two Montréal music stations, which hire mainly male announcers who select music assumed to fit wom en’s tastes, Christine Maki examines the continuing perception that women’s voices aren’t low or authoritative enough and that emotional issues prevent them from presenting difficult news stories. Her conclusion: the overall medium remains relatively unchanged over the decades, despite massive evolution in the wider media landscape.

Maps and map-making have been used in a range of research about musical phenomena in cities. Yet, most of these studies focus on musicians; few have attempted to understand how people take part in a city’s musical life in terms of event attendance. Likewise, little has been said about the attendance habits of immigrants, despite the quick transformation of urban populations due to the expansion of human migration. Approaching a subject that has received so little attention as the dynamics of participation of immigrants in a city’s musical life therefore requires an inventive research design. Building from a methodology combining semi-structured interviews and observation, I used maps and map-making to deepen the analysis of North African immigrants’ cultural practices in Montreal. Trying to give a spatial legibility to their musical activities in the city generated many technical and theoretical concerns, but was also helpful for reflecting on the project differently and highlighting some characteristics of the data that were not obvious from the initial fieldwork. In brief, maps and map-making proved to be efficient complementary tools to ethnography, bringing new insights and raising new queries about the practices being considered.

In this review, I discuss the architectonics of sound composition according to sound artist and designer Nancy Tobin. This chapbook advocates for a comprehensively integrated presence of a sound artist in the processes of rehearsal and espouses a dramaturgy of hearing. Tobin’s distinction between hearing and listening gives forth onto a series of self-studies of her experience of spatial and temporal arrangements presented in the form of e-mails to mentees. Her appreciation for the acoustics of the performance space extends to the composition of sound to be heard (on occasion as boldly interventionist) and the technologies of broadcasting it: the choice and placement of speakers, as well as their interaction with the performers. Tobin argues for a definition of sound composition for performance as a complex collaboration with the production—curatorial in terms of the space of ephemerality. My review concurs with the efficacy of her approach by my recognition of the moments in productions that have remained as some of the most memorable of my theatregoing.

Taking over the airwaves in a small neighbourhood in Montréal was the first step in the creation of the Temporary Autonomous Radio, a pirate station open to women and serving its community when needed. From Montréal, founder Marian van der Zon moved TAR to the West Coast, temporarily on the airways in Victoria, Nanaimo, and rural Vancouver Island. Pirate radio under five watts is usually overlooked in Canada. Beyond music festivals, TAR serves to provide information about issues not often covered in mainstream media. Most importantly, it allows women to be themselves and explore their identities through a non-gendered medium