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TAGS by Joane Hétu and TanGRAM by Danielle Palardy Roger are two written works that showcase graphic scores in improvised music. TAGS creates an encounter between Ensemble SuperMusique, the saxophone quartet Quasar, and the Bozzini Quartet. The musicians make “sound graffiti” on an imaginary wall represented by a sequence of timed sections on a descriptive score where the composer uses different instrumental combinations. Using an aesthetic of articulated gestures, the work is made through these multiple signatures. TanGRAM brings together twenty instrumentalists from Ensemble SuperMusique. The game of Tangram is represented in the form of a graphic score where each piece has specific musical properties to be interpreted by the musicians. Rich in combinatorial and symmetrical games, the work presents Orion: a continuous figure, a slowly moving flow where each musician seeks their own way in a global sound.

Partant d’une caractéristique de l’environnement artistique à Montréal - le décloisonnement des esthétiques et des formes d’expressions -, cette enquête compile les propos de six créateurs et artistes sonores de trois générations distinctes qui ont vécu ce contexte : Monique Jean et Jean-François Laporte (génération 1960), Patrick Saint-Denis et Cléo Palacio-Quintin (génération 1970), Adam Basanta et Émilie Payeur (génération 1980). Chacun se prononce sur quatre thématiques principales : la définition de leur pratique artistique, leurs réflexions sur la pluridisciplinarité ou la polyvalence, la perception de l’environnement artistique entre leurs débuts et aujourd’hui, et leur rapport à l’enseignement institutionnel versus l’apprentissage en autodidacte. Les réponses mettent en lumière la diversité des perceptions alimentant la diversité des pratiques, les sensibilités du contexte propres à chaque génération, ainsi que des visions personnelles de la ville quant à ses institutions et activités artistiques.

En 2013, Xavier Dolan, cinéaste, acteur et metteur en scène québécois prolifique, réalise le vidéoclip College Boy, chanson du groupe de musique français Indochine qui s’articule autour d’un jeune garçon queer qui est victime d’homophobie dans un internat. Cet article propose une analyse de ce vidéoclip en se focalisant sur la mise en scène de la violence et des affects négatifs. Nous étudions d’abord le débat provoqué par la diffusion et la censure du clip en France. Ensuite, à partir de la théorie du “backward feeling” développée par Heather Love dans Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (2007), nous analysons la manière dont la représentation de la violence dans l’œuvre de Dolan remet en question l’ordre hétéronormatif. Nous défendons la thèse qu’en s’attaquant de front aux institutions qui sont les véritables agents de la violence homophobe, College Boy contribue à la conservation archivistique de l’expérience queer et crée ainsi une possibilité d’émancipation face à l’hétéronormativité.

Montreal composer Jocelyne Binet's "Cycle de Melodies sur des Poemes de Paul Eluard" was programmed in 1955 by the French baritone Gerard Souzay in a performance that was most likely the world premiere. Unfortunately, Binet's song cycle never was published, and the work soon was forgotten. In the fall of 2016, the author discovered Bineet's original handwritten manuscript pages in holdings of Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales du Quebec and began the process of reconstructing the score. This article discusses the editorial journal undertaken when resurrecting Binet's forgotten song cycle, which was subsequently published in 2018 by Classical Vocal Reprints.

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.

Un article de la revue Cap-aux-Diamants, diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

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.

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'.

Dans la ville de Québec, la culture hip-hop permet de mettre en lumière les acteurs qui proviennent de milieux défavorisés et de l’immigration. À partir de textes de rap et d’entrevues avec des rappeurs, des entrepreneurs producteurs de hip-hop et leurs proches réalisées dans le cadre d’une recherche ethnographique, j’analyse comment de jeunes immigrants noirs utilisent le hip-hop et l’entrepreneuriat culturel comme une stratégie de contestation et de résistance face à la pauvreté et aux discriminations auxquelles ils sont confrontés. Selon une approche intersectionnelle (Hall,1980a; Crenshaw, 1994; Chauvin et Jaunait, 2015), cette étude met en lumière comment des propriétés originellement marginalisantes (race, lieu de résidence et dispositions sociales) peuvent être converties en des potentiels légitimés.

Article sur l'artiste sonore Nancy Tobin.

Dans la littérature sur la danse exotique de la première moitié du xxe siècle, la danseuse noire apparaît soit comme la victime d’une industrie du divertissement capitalisant sur les mises en scène érotisantes, exotisantes et primitivisantes de son corps, soit comme la parodie subversive du stéréotype dit « primitif-exotique » incarné sur scène. Pour paraphraser bell hooks, le plaisir corporel, voire charnel, lié à la danse est avant tout abordé en tant que réalité à laquelle il faut résister, qui doit être masquée ou transcendée, ce qui force ainsi un processus de distanciation entre le travail artistique de la danseuse et le capital érotique de son corps. Dans cet article, l’auteure s’appuie sur une collection d’entretiens réalisés dans le contexte du travail de recherche ayant mené à la production cinématographique Show Girls: Celebrating Montreal’s Legendary Black Jazz Scene (1999) avec des danseuses qui travaillaient dans l’industrie du spectacle durant l’« âge d’or » du jazz montréalais (1925-1955). Les récits que révèlent ces entretiens permettent d’aller au-delà des questions de représentation dans la littérature sur la danse exotique pour poser un regard sur l’agentivité artistique de ces femmes qui résistent à la désarticulation entre leur travail artistique et le capital érotique de leurs corps.

Cet article propose une réflexion sur la manière dont les actes et savoir-être musicaux, médiatisés par les tambours, peuvent nourrir une éthique relationnelle entre partenaires autochtones et non autochtones, dans un contexte de recherche collaborative. L’article se base sur des recherches menées avec la Première Nation des Ilnuatsh de Mashteuiatsh. L’étude de leurs tambours, appelés teuehikan, a permis d’interroger et d’analyser des principes relatifs au respect, à l’attention et à la réciprocité. À travers ces principes, l’article revient sur les reconfigurations éthiques, méthodologiques et épistémologiques que la relation au teuehikan permet de conceptualiser. Il interroge plus spécifiquement comment la relation que les Ilnuatsh entretiennent avec le teuehikan s’inscrit au sein d’une éthique de l’attention dont les principes sont susceptibles de nourrir nos propres pratiques de recherche.

Certains membres de la scène des musiques nouvelles souhaitent en décentrer ses racines eurocentriques et en critiquer ses tendances colonialistes. Avant même de discuter des stratégies qui pourraient constituer un cadre décolonisateur, il est utile d’identifier comment la colonialité se reflète dans cette scène. L’auteur, lui-même membre actif de celle-ci, partage des pistes de réflexion portant sur l’homogénéité culturelle du milieu, les questions d’accès, l’héritage de la musique classique, le concept de l’excellence européenne, la présomption d’universalité, la coexistence de statuts de légitimité et de marginalité, la relation ambigüe avec l’appropriation culturelle et les fondements de l’attribution du mérite.

Audible in speech and song, electro-pop singer Grimes’s so-called “baby doll” lisp generates endless buzz online, ranging from light-hearted adoration, to infantilization, to sexual fetish and even to ableist, misogynist anti-fandom. This article uses the reception of her lisp to build an intersectional theory of lisping across its medical and socio-cultural constructions, bridging work in disability studies, dysfluency studies, voice studies, and popular music studies in the process. I situate the slippage between adoring, infantilizing, fetishistic, and violent characterizations of Grimes’s lisp as reflective of the infantilization of “communicative disorders” in speech language pathology, and the dysfunction associated with feminine coded-speech patterns (e.g. vocal fry and up talk) in the popular imaginary. Lisping is profitably understood as an audible form of “liminal” difference relative to visible physical disabilities (St. Pierre), and to certain ableist, gendered, and racialized conceptions of normative vocality. Ultimately, in the English-speaking world, the lisp is symbolically-coded feminine while exceeding the norms of female vocality, thereby giving rise to a polarizing set of associations that work against female authority and, by extension in Grimes’s case, female musical authorship. Grimes’s reception thus offers a valuable case study for interrogating how misogynist fantasies regarding femininity are thought localized in the female voice, and the symbolic ties between disability and femininity.

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