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One Day in the Life of Rufus Wainwright follows the singer-songwriter from New York City to Boston for his performance at the Boston Opera House, which featured his sister Martha Wainwright as a special guest. With an intro by NYC nightlife legend Cherry Vanilla and text from Rufus himself.
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"No contemporary pop performer's work mixes innovation and tradition like Rufus Wainwright's. He is the son of singer, songwriter, actor Loudon Wainwright III and legendary Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle whose story is one of towering highs and rock bottom lows in which family influences, sexual experimentation, and a crystal meth addiction in the early 2000s have greatly contributed."
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À la fois superstar et femme secrète, Diane Dufresne est une des rares artistes à susciter autant de passion au Québec, en France et dans toute la francophonie. Depuis quatre décennies, ses admirateurs sont légion des deux côtés de l'Atlantique et le milieu artistique reconnaît unanimement son audace et son immense talent de créatrice
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Throughout his ascendancy in fame and cultural visibility, singer/songwriter and gay pop icon Rufus Wainwright's output has been consistently related, by scholars and critics alike, to camp aesthetics, modes of artistic expression typically understood as emerging from queer communities, particularly certain gay male populations, but ones whose political potential is highly contested. Traditional conceptions of camp, as most famously articulated by Susan Sontag in the 1960s, emphasize style over content, necessarily rendering it politically-disengaged. However, scholars have vehemently challenged conceptions like Sontag's, in order to reclaim camp as a potent means to facilitate queer world-making and a powerful resistance to heteronormativity. I examine Wainwright's image and music in order to theorize a new queer interpretive listening position. Specifically, I draw upon the literary perspective of “reparative reading,” articulated by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in opposition to what she describes as “paranoid reading,” to propose a uniquely queer approach to musical and cultural historiography, exemplified by Wainwright's music. Much of the current queer musicology focuses on lost histories, systematic marginalization, and the commoditization of queer identities. While such approaches have produced important insights, thorough examination of the relationships between queer cultural products and their queer reception has proven elusive. This project suggests a unique approach to understanding the musical construction of a specific kind of queer masculinity, one which combines authorial creation with reparative conceptions of reception, in order to theorize a uniquely gay male interpretive position. When viewed through a theoretical lens combining politically-potent conceptions of camp performativity with a reparative reading position, Wainwright's music strikingly enacts Philip Brett's call to claim, not historical evidence, but the right of interpretation, emerging as an act of resistance via the reclamation and consolidation of a queer interpretive authority. In this way, Wainwright articulates both a rupture in the history of queer masculinity and a powerful means of resistance to the often-exclusionary relationships between literary, musical, and artistic objects and the heteronormative cultural systems in which they are created.
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Cet article étudie la notion de reprise sous l’angle de l’Hommage à La Bolduc rendu par sept compositrices à Mary Travers (alias La Bolduc), icône de la musique populaire au Québec dans les années 1930, à l’occasion du Festival SuperMicMac. Par des allusions, des références précises et explicites ou par de simples emprunts et citations, ces hommages sont autant de lectures que de relectures des chansons sélectionnées en abordant différents modes de jeux d’« intertextualité musicale ». Celle-ci se situe à deux niveaux : le pôle de la production, qui montre que les chansons engagées de La Bolduc sont elles-mêmes le témoignage d’une époque ; le pôle de la réception, pour exposer les résonances de ces chansons à partir de références autres et communes à la fois, comme la place des femmes dans la création musicale. Cette étude envisage ainsi la reprise à partir des aspects, des significations et des enjeux musicaux posés par l’intertextualité musicale, ici abordée sous l’angle de l’hommage alors conçu comme « réactivateur » de sens.