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Dora Cojocaru is recognized as an outstanding representative of the Cluj school of composition, but also as a strong voice in Romanian musicology. While her musicological output includes books, studies, articles, radio programs, conference papers, master classes and scientific communication sessions, her most important contribution remains the book entitled Creația lui Gyӧrgy Ligeti în contextul stilistic al secolului XX [Gyӧrgy Ligeti's Work in the Stylistic Context of the Twentieth Century], which was the first book about Ligeti that appeared in the Romanian musicological landscape. Dora Cojocaru’s compositional portrait can be drawn by following the language characteristics and compositional devices used in the chamber cantata Dați-mi lampa lui Aladin [Give Me Aladdin's Lamp]. The composer’s work is characterised by a propensity for chamber music. The composer confesses that it is also a consequence of the fact that this genre comes with a plethora of expressive possibilities. In terms of the musical language used by the composer, its first characteristic is the concern to avoid repetition in expression and the variation of an already used musical material. This is strikingly evident in the chamber cantata Dați-mi lampa lui Aladin [Give Me Aladdin's Lamp]. Another peculiarity is the construction based on a developmental discourse, while a third characteristic is the frequent construction of the discourse based on an economy of means and on a musical material consisting of only a few notes. In the case of this cantata, it is essential to note the historical context, which is closely linked to the symbolic title suggesting the composer’s desperate desire to bring her brother back to life, although she is aware that this is only possible by magic. The composer’s choice of lyrics is derived from the fact that Trakl’s and Rilke’s texts allude to the theme of death, which is one of the frequent themes of late Expressionism, and are therefore pervaded by a tragic note, in tune with the composer’s musical intentions. If we follow the text-music relationship, we notice some extremely significant moments, in which music creates sonic images that are suggestive of the message of the text.

Against a tense socio-political backdrop of white supremacy, intensifying pressures of neoliberal fiscal austerity, and queer necropolitics, this thesis addresses performance-based activist forms of place-making for urban-based queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of colour. Using participant observation and qualitative interviews with pioneering members of Montréal’s Kiki scene and Ottawa’s emerging Waacking community and interpreting my findings through the theoretical lens of queer of colour theory, critical whiteness studies, queer Latinx performance studies and Chicana feminism, I argue that Kiki subculture, which is maintained by pedagogical processes of ‘each one, teach one’, is instrumental in facilitating i) life-affirming queer kinship bonds, (ii) alternative ways to simultaneously embody and celebrate nonnormative gender expression with Black, Asian, and Latinx identity, iii) non-capitalist economies of sharing, and iv) hopeful strategies of everyday community activism and resilience to appropriative processes during economic insecurity and necropolitical turmoil.

This paper presents an analysis of Annesley Black’s not thinking about the elephants (2018), for saxophone quartet and live electronics. Written for Montreal’s Quasar Saxophone Quartet, this work explores concepts of suppression and emergence through traditional musical dimensions such as melody, counterpoint, and form, but also through contemporary musical dimensions such as psychoacoustics (difference tones), theatrical elements, and live electronics. Black’s practice engages critically with the compositional process itself by formulating dialectic relationships between material and compositional strategies (both intuitive and systematic). This work encourages the listener to engage in a multidimensional listening experience where conceptual extremes become a catalyst for the building of narrative and tension.

Né il y a 40 ans de la collaboration entre Michel Berger et Luc Plamondon, le phénomène Starmania est probablement le plus grand succès musical franco-québécois. Outre les Français Daniel Balavoine et France Gall, la distribution originale réunissait quatre immenses interprètes d’ici : Claude Dubois, Diane Dufresne, Fabienne Thibeault et Nanette Workman. La carrière de chacun a été marquée par cette aventure qui a aussi laissé sa trace indélébile dans notre imaginaire collectif. Fabienne Thibeault, qui avait 26 ans à l’époque, nous fait partager cette épopée dans l’intimité du couple formé par Michel Berger et France Gall chez qui elle a vécu à Paris. Pour compléter son récit, elle se remémore des anecdotes personnelles et donne la parole aux artisans moins connus (choristes, doublures, musiciens) de cette réalisation magistrale qui surprend toujours par son actualité.

Un article de la revue Circuit, diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Since the 1990s scholars, teachers, and policy makers have debated over the importance of culturally grounded or culture-based education (CBE) approaches in primary and secondary programmes. For Indigenous communities, CBE methods are often regarded as decolonising tools that support linguistic and sociocultural revitalisation efforts. A majority of Indigenous educational projects have prioritised teaching language above other cultural components, such as music, which has largely been overlooked as a powerful tool due to the pervasive assumption that traditional musical practices rely on the language to survive. This article explores how cultural components have a symbiotic rather than a hierarchical relationship, focusing on the interdependence between language and music. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and observations with four Indigenous language immersion teachers, I argue that music is a linchpin pedagogical tool that promotes intergenerational interactions, builds social relationships, and facilitates the daily use of language in and outside the classroom.

Gender diversity in the music industry is low, both in Canada and internationally. The lack of diversity may represent a competitive disadvantage, as diversity is known to promote innovation and broad thinking, which is precisely what the music industry needs as it undergoes rapid change. This study, performed by Women in Music Canada in collaboration with PwC, assesses the impact of gender diversity of leadership within the Canadian music industry and the impact on company performance.

Produced by Juro Kim Feliz under the Canadian Music Centre Library Residency, Nomadic Sound Worlds is a four-part blog/podcast series exploring Canadian contemporary music through the lens of present-day global migration. A collection of essays named Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss (ed. André Aciman, 1999) informs and inspires this project, with trajectories branching out from related themes including mobility, displacement, loss, reconciliation of polarized truths, and invention of selves. In this regard, the series will feature selected immigrant Canadian composers whose musical worlds collide with various personal stories of immigration.

Women have been active as performers of instrumental music since the Medieval period, and yet their contributions are often overlooked. This dissertation examines the history of women’s orchestras outside the United States, and explores their development, as well as reasons for existing. Several factors regarding their development are taken into consideration, including time period, country, and culture in which the ensemble is present. The birth of the women’s orchestra is traced from the ospedali of the 18th century Venice to today. All-female ensembles from England, Canada, Cuba, and Afghanistan are profiled, as well as the Women’s Orchestra in Auschwitz. Two modern-day women’s orchestras – the Allegra Chamber Orchestra in Vancouver, British Columbia, and my recital orchestra at the University of Maryland – were surveyed in an attempt to learn more about the culture of women’s orchestras. This paper seeks to answer the questions “What is the culture of women's orchestras today, and should they continue to exist?”

This dissertation maps the interaction between jazz, identity, modernity and nation during the so-called "golden age" of jazz in Montreal (1925-1955). Drawing on the fields of musicology, women's studies (black feminist theory and feminist research methods in particular), critical dance studies, and cultural studies, this project provides a critical re-writing of the history of Montreal jazz, one which acknowledges various roles that racialized and ethnicized women played in the shaping of modern identities, pleasures and sounds in Quebec. Montreal's particular status as a "showtown" makes it a rich laboratory to study the collaborative creative relationships between jazz music and dance on the black variety stage in the first half of the twentieth century. I also map the specific parameters that articulate the discursive relationship between jazz and vice, in particular as these relate to the gendered and racialized embodiment of morality in interwar Quebec. Finally, this dissertation produces the first extensive biographical accounts and critical listening of several prominent Montreal-based female jazz artists, including pianists Vera Guilaroff and Ilene Bourne, all-girl groups such as The Spencer Sisters and the Montreal Melody Girls Orchestra, black women performers such as Tina Baines Brereton, Bernice Jordan Whims, Marie-Claire Germain, Mary Brown, Natalie Ramirez, as well as piano teacher Daisy Peterson Sweeney and dance teachers Ethel Bruneau and Olga Spencer Foderingham.

Radicada há mais de vinte anos na França e no Canadá, Bïa Krieger conquistou um público cativo nesses países, onde recebeu prêmios importantes, como o Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros (França), Prix de l’Adisq (Canadá) e Félix du Meilleur Album Musiques du Monde (Canadá). Esta entrevista contempla o seu trabalho como versionista, com enfoque nas versões em francês para canções de Chico Buarque.

Notable radio scholars including Christine Ehrick, Phylis A. Johnson, and Caroline Mitchell have explored critical challenges of gender and sexuality radio research and its importance in relation to communities. A major issue faced in studying the early years of women’s history in broadcast is the ephemeral nature of the medium as many of the voices are lost in the ether, unrecorded or once deemed inessential to archive. Web-based radio and podcast archives provide renewed avenues for listening to lesbian and queer women’s radio across transnational borders yet many long running shows in Canada such as The Lesbian Show on Vancouver Co-Op Radio have only recently begun to surface as digital collections. As personal and institutional archives of lesbian and queer women radio begin to reach a public audience, analysis of radio works across decades of LGBTQ2+ activism and feminisms must be traced to understand the role of radio and digital radiogenic media in creating space and identity for queer activism. A turn to the past brings forward questions of analog and digital futures for radio and podcasting space as place to construct and shape queer and especially lesbian communities and identities in the North American broadcasting industry. Through research of notable live and pre-produced content including Dykes on Mykes on CKUT 90.3 FM, and The Lesbian Show on Vancouver Co-Op Radio, this work offers an exploration of radio and radiogenic media’s role in creating sonic space for queer and feminist subjectivities.

Diane Dufresne est l'une des plus célèbres voix de la chanson québécoise et figure parmi les artistes les plus importantes de notre époque. Sa virtuosité et sa créativité est reconnue tant au Québec qu'en Europe. À soixante-quatorze ans, elle poursuit activement sa carrière. Sa popularité est immense et, au fil des ans, elle a reçu de nombreuses distinctions. Cet ouvrage, élaboré en collaboration avec son époux, l'artiste sculpteur Richard Langevin, propose une rétrospective d'un parcours riche en événements et en succès. De Tiens-toé ben j'arrive! à Magie rose en passant par Les Violons du Roy, ce livre relate les grandes étapes de la vie professionnelle et personnelle de la chanteuse à partir de photos souvenirs et d'images inédites. Un véritable devoir de mémoire.

Suivant un minutieux choix d'extraits d'entrevues, de spectacles et de photos, puisés à même un colossal et riche fonds d'archives, Pauline Julien, intime et politique nous entraîne dans le sillage de cette femme résolument libre et engagée, figure emblématique de la chanson et d'une époque charnière de l'histoire du Québec.

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Pauline Julien et Gérald Godin ont entretenu une correspondance amoureuse s’étendant sur plus de trente ans, soit de 1962 à 1993. Quelques-unes de leurs lettres ont fait l’objet d’une publication, La Renarde et le mal peigné (Leméac Éditeur, 2009), grâce à Pascale Galipeau, fille du comédien Jacques Galipeau et de Pauline Julien. Mais c’est avant tout le corpus inédit de plus de 400 lettres non reprises, découvertes dans les fonds d’archives à BAnQ, qui feront l’objet de nos recherches. Outre sa « fonction documentaire » (Jaubert, 2010a : 74), cette correspondance permet de voir la mise en scène par laquelle s’élabore la construction du moi de Julien et de Godin. Au fil de leur échange épistolaire, chacun joue sur l’impression qu’il tente de produire sur l’autre, de manipuler la mise en scène du moi qui régule leur interaction amoureuse. Dans l’ensemble des lettres, cette présentation de soi relève d’une complexion plus vaste que celle qui se dégage des choix éditoriaux effectués dans La Renarde et le mal peigné, restreinte à la relation amoureuse. Permettant d’éclairer la relation personnelle entre Julien et Godin, ainsi que leurs trajectoires artistiques respectives, cette correspondance constitue le lieu d’une négociation entre leurs postures publiques (poète journaliste puis ministre et chanteuse engagée) et intimes (homme de lettres au foyer et femme de profession). De fait, même si leurs échanges restent intimes, il y a là une présentation de soi qui se confronte à la nécessité de négocier avec la médiatisation de leur figure publique, celle-ci influençant leur part de contrôle sur la figure intime qu’ils tentent de dessiner dans leur correspondance. Des textes de Ruth Amossy (La présentation de soi. Ethos et identité verbale et Images de soi dans le discours : la construction de l’ethos), d’Anna Jaubert (« L’éthos de l’épistolier au miroir de l’autre ») et d’Arlette Farge (Le goût de l’archive), constitueront les bases théoriques de notre étude.

Dans ces « fragments de correspondance amoureuse », on découvre Pauline Julien et Gérald Godin comme jamais on ne les avait vus, comme jamais plus on ne les verra. Lui, jeune loup puis loup mature, passionné, dévoué à la cause et amoureux. Elle, mère, chanteuse, absente souvent, incertaine et amoureuse. Elle que le doute assaille, toujours. Lui, de plus en plus sûr. C’est un magnifique tango qui se déroule sous nos yeux, on s’attire et se repousse dans le même paragraphe. Et c’est beau. Que c’est beau! La poésie qui les habite en permanence est suffisante pour rendre n’importe quel esprit jaloux, suffisante pour affadir n’importe quel amour. Pascale Galipeau, fille de Pauline Julien, a dû braver objections et réprimandes pour publier ces lettres. On ne peut que la remercier à genoux et lui baiser les mains de ne pas avoir cédé.