Archives par mot-clé : musique / music studies

Parution : Le Zouk

Gérald Désert, Le Zouk, Génèse et représentations sociales d’une musique populaire, Anibwe, 2018.

Image, album “Francky Goes To Pointe​-​à​-​Pitre”, A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records

Qu’est-ce que le zouk ? Si tout un chacun a pu entendre cette musique populaire, même de façon très passive, dans des circonstances d’écoutes diverses, à ce jour, son histoire n’a pas encore fait l’objet d’une réflexion spécifique et systématique ; alors s’interroger sur ce qu’est le zouk ne relève pas d’une lubie personnelle, sans fondement autre que le pathos, mais bien d’un questionnement d’intérêt général
sur la culture musicale dans l’espace local, national et international.

Le zouk, la pensée du zouk, sa représentation dans la réflexion universitaire n’est qu’à ses débuts et c’est ce qui fait tout l’intérêt de ce livre.

Gérald Désert est enseignant de langues, littératures et civilisations hispaniques au CRILLASH-Université des Antilles. Il fut chargé d’enseignement au Centre Universitaire de Mayotte (2015-2016).

Ses recherches portent notamment sur la littérature mexicaine et sur les relations entre musique populaire et littérature (Rubén Blades, le Zouk, etc.).

Journée “La Chanson politique (1780-1830)”

La chanson politique entre deux siècles (1780-1830)

(journée d’étude du CREHS// Les cultures musicales en France // n° 3)

Université d’Artois, Maison de la Recherche, salle R1,

 

le vendredi 13 novembre 2015.

chanson politique

Avant la Révolution, la chanson est déjà une forme d’expression populaire, qui solennise les rites de passage, accompagne le travail aux champs, en atelier ou sur les chantiers, rythme les marches, anime les veillées, les banquets, les fêtes, les bals. La plupart du temps, elle traite d’amour, de vie quotidienne (chansons traditionnelles) ou d’actualité (complaintes, vaudevilles). Traditionnellement, toute manifestation collective s’accompagne de chansons de circonstance en dialecte local. La chanson est donc l’élément d’une culture commune, mais aussi un marqueur identitaire, de métier, de localité, d’âge. La chanson politique est un répertoire spécifique, minoritaire, et pas proprement populaire, au moins au sens de « connu de tous ». Continuer la lecture de Journée “La Chanson politique (1780-1830)”

Colloque sur les mouvements punk/post-punk, 27-28 mars 2015

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Disorder : Histoire sociale des mouvements punk/post-punk

Programme du colloque 

Vendredi 27 mars

Université Paris Diderot – Amphithéâtre Buffon, bâtiment Buffon, 15 rue Hélène Brion, Paris 750139h Accueil et allocution d’ouverture – Mathieu Duplay, directeur de l’UFR d’Études Anglophones, LARCA, Université Paris Diderot9h30-10h30 CONFERENCE PLENIERE – Nick Crossley, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester, “A Network of Sound, Style and Subversion: the formation of the London Punk World, 1975-1976

 

Coffee Break – Pause café

10h45-12h45 – ATELIER 1 – Cultural transfers – Transferts culturels

Présidente de séance : Elodie Grossi (URMIS-CNRS) / Discutante : Florence Tamagne (Univ. Lille III)

Thomas Bacquet (U. Rouen), “L’impossible émergence du punk en Corée du Sud : une voie vers la démocratisation et la naissance d’une scène indépendante dans les années 1990.

Djordje Sredanovic (U. Bologna), “Huligani dangereux: “new punk wave” imaginations between Eastern and Western Europe

Simone Tosoni (U. Cattolica Milano), “Enacting Goth in Milan, Italy:local appropriations of a trans-national post-punk subculture in the ‘80s

Pierre Raboud (U. Lausanne), “La scène punk suisse et l’injonction à l’engagement : mobilisations politiques et replis esthétiques (1976-1980)

Lunch break – Pause déjeuner : 12h45-14h

14h-16h – ATELIER 2 –

Different French Punk generations – Les générations du punk français

Président de séance et discutant : Arnaud Baubérot (UPEC)

Pierig Hummeau (CURAPP – CNRS) , “De l’avant-garde « proto-punk » à l’espace punk « indépendant » français.”

Luc Robène (U. Bordeaux) et Solveig Serre (THALIM –CNRS), “To be or not to be punk. L’invention du punk dans la presse musicale spécialisée en France (1976-1978)

Christophe Broqua (U. Paris Ouest Nanterre) et Vincent Douris, “La musique industrielle, héritière du mouvement punk ? Racines et pluralité de la scène française des années 1980

Thomas Loué (U. Strasbourg), “L’efficacité monographique dans l’histoire sociale du punk. L’exemple d’Oth (1978-1991)”

Coffee Break – Pause café

16h30-18h – Table ronde – Alternative Punk and Post-Punk scenes outside the English-speaking context: the underground, marginality and repression – Scène alternative punk et post-punk en dehors du monde anglophone : entre marginalité, underground et répression.

Président de séance : Paul Schor (U. Paris Diderot). Avec Nathanel Amar, Pascale Le Berre, François Ooghe (Marsu), Mona Soyoc et Spatsz, Hervé Zénouda.

CONCERT AU PETIT BAIN À 19h30 (OUVERTURE DES PORTES 19H) AVEC LYDIA LUNCH’S RETROVIRUS ET KAS PRODUCT

Continuer la lecture de Colloque sur les mouvements punk/post-punk, 27-28 mars 2015

Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, & Pop Music

Publication: Sounds French

I am pleased to announce the recent publication of Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music, 1958-1980 with Oxford University Press.

Here’s the description from the press:
Sounds French examines the history of popular music in France between the arrival of rock and roll in 1958 and the collapse of the first wave of punk in 1980, and the connections between musical genres and concepts of community in French society. Continuer la lecture de Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, & Pop Music

Publication : Popular Music and Countercultures, n°1

The first issue of the French edition of “Popular Music and Countercultures” is now out and online.

Full table of contents: https://www.cairn.info/revue-volume-2012-1.htm

To purchase/subscribe from beyond France: http://volume.revues.org/1643

CONTENT

– Introduction

– Sheila Whiteley, « Contre-cultures et Musiques Populaires – présentation »

– Andy Bennett, « Réévaluer la “contre-culture” »

1. Théoriser les Contre-Cultures

  • Ryan Moore, « “Break on Through” : La Contre-culture et l’apogée de la modernité américaine »
  • Simon Warner, « “The Banality of degradation”: Andy Warhol, le Velvet Underground et l’esthétique trash »

II. Les Scènes Contre-Culturelles – Musique & Espace

  • Giovanni Vacca, « Musique et contre-cultures en Italie : la scène napolitaine »
  • Aline Macke, « Les Taqwacores : émergence d’une contre-subculture américano-musulmane ? »
  • Fabien Hein, « Le DIY comme dynamique contre-culturelle : l’exemple de la scène punk rock »
  • Gildas Lescop, « Les skinheads : du reggae au RAC. Le passage d’une contre-culture à une contre-contre-culture sous influence musicale »
  • Philippe Birgy, « “Si cette histoire vous amuse, on peut la recommencer” : Le yéyé et l’importation de l’Amérique »

Notes de Lecture – Contre-Cultures

  • Ian Inglis : Andy Bennett (ed.) (2004), Remembering Woodstock, Farnham & Burlington : Ashgate.
  • Michaël Rolland : Claude Chastagner (2012), Révoltes et Utopies. Militantisme et contre-culture dans l’Amérique des années soixante, Paris : Presses Universitaires de France.
  • Elsa Grassy : Barbara Lebrun (2009), Protest Music in France: Production, Identity and Audiences, Farnham : Ashgate.
  • Hazel Marsh : Ian Peddie (ed.) (2011), Popular Music & Human Rights I & II, Farnham & Burlington : Ashgate.
  • Richard Elliott : Keith Negus (2008), Bob Dylan, Sheffield : Equinox.
  • Patrick Burke : Russell Reising (ed.) (2006), Speak to Me: The Legacy of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Aldershot & Burlington : Ashgate.
  • Peter Mills : Kevin Fellezs (2011), Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion (Refiguring American Music), Durham : Duke University Press

Varia

  • Olivier Julien, « “Make-Believe Ballroom Times” : de l’influence du DJing sur les modes d’interprétation et de composition des musiques populaires anglo-américaines »

An English version of this issue will be published, with new papers, in 2013 by Ashgate.

Call for papers : "Researching Music Censorship", Copenhaguen, 6-8 June 2013

Call for papers : Researching Music Censorship,

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

June 6th to 8th, 2013

Confirmed speakers Martin Cloonan, University of Glasgow, Deborah Kapchan, New York University, Martin Stokes, King’s College, London, & Ursula Hemetek, University of Vienna.

Music censorship is a relatively new area of research and as a scholarly field of study it is a disputed issue. This is so because it involves a large range of intertwined components and because in discourses over censorship it is generally difficult to pinpoint the relation between cause and effect. The immanent versatility of the concept – as well as its practical dimensions – calls for a multidisciplinary approach. Further it has proven vitally important to understand the process as a political and social phenomenon resting on various aspects like race, gender, religion and class and the intricate power relations involved in the concept/phenomenon of freedom of expression in relation to music and musicians and to an overarching relation between human rights and musical performance in its broadest sense. Thus, research on music and censorship involve attention to different types of actors such as states, NGOs, corporations, religious organisations and social movements, as well as musicians, composers and the music business, i.e. record companies, concerts agents and broadcasters/distributors. Finally, in the present perspective the study of music censorship also involves aesthetic reflections on the use of musical sound.

The Researching Music Censorship network, which is funded by the Nordic research agency, NordForsk, has for more than three years examined and discussed these questions with Nordic and International researchers. The original objectives of this project stated: “The aim of the network is (will be) to promote and encourage the scholarly study of music censorship, and to research the role of music in relation to human rights and artistic freedom of expression in its broadest sense.”

A number of seminars, meetings and workshops hosted by the participating institutions have focussed on discussing and examining music censorship in relation to the topics “Music and Violence” (Copenhagen May 2011), “Gender and Race” (Lund September 2011), “Theory and Ethics; censorship and self censorship” (Oslo April 2012) and “Religion and the Market” (Järvenpää October 2012) Through in depth discussions and research papers dealing with the academic perspectives of research into freedom of expression and the particularity of music in this context, the network has gained new insight into the intricate conditions of the role of music in the nexus between negotiations on power play and aesthetic ‘production’.

This conference seeks to present some of the most significant results of the network activities, while also opening the field to new perspectives on the study of music censorship and freedom of expression. It aspires to highlight the complexities of the issues and concepts involved, to encourage a contextualised understanding of music censorship and to address the academic challenges that are included.

The conference will examine:

  1. The way in which the study of censorship is strongly related to the various social, political and aesthetic discourses that are found in the cases studied: leading to a notion of ‘Censorship in context’ (John Street, 2012).
  2. How the concept of censorship in music is balancing a thin line of differing juridical rules, which are neither consistent and logical nor universal, but highly relying on political and social action.
  3. The theoretical and scholarly implications of the concept ‘advocacy’ in relation to the work on music censorship and other kinds of limitations of freedom of expression
  4. The acknowledgement that in principle all kinds of music and sound can be and can be subjects to limitations and silencing.

Themes of the conference:

THEME ONE: Conceptualising Music Censorship

One of the central aims of the Researching Music Censorship network has been to offer fruitful critique upon the often uncomplicated and simplified definitions of the concept of music censorship in popular discourse. Papers dealing with the concept of music censorship, new perspectives of theories and methodologies of restrictions and regulations in musical expression are invited, as well as perspectives for the understanding of the interplay of music and power.

THEME TWO: Ethics, self censorship and law

Since causes for music censorship are often claimed in the basis of morals and/or law and often addressing quite sensitive issues, the conference seeks to examine the complex merger of judicial legislation, human rights prerogatives and ethical considerations. Papers based on studies of law and human rights are accordingly welcomed as are those addressing ethical understandings of cultural and musical freedom of expression.

THEME THREE: Markets

It has been suggested that censorship takes place when the market forces promote and/or reject certain musics. It has just as strongly been argued that this kind of market control is not censorship, but rather a result of a process of selection based on artistic choice or aesthetics.  Papers are invited aiming at discussing the particular regulatory processes at work in relation to markets of music distribution in its broadest sense.

THEME FOUR: Examining global, regional, and local frameworks for music censorship

Papers are invited discussing historical as well as contemporary music censorship, aiming at furthering understanding of music in everyday life, in the discourses between public and private spaces, as well as in war and conflicts. This could include case studies from all over the world and address historical as well as contemporary music censorship.

THEME Five: Religion and tradition.

Religious views, both theologically motivated and culturally founded, historically play a central role when music is restricted and censored. Religious discourses are embedded in everything from moral rules of families to the blasphemy laws of states. It also has the possibility to mobilize powerful disciplinary narratives. Yet, music is crucial to the rituals, cultural life, and theology of any given religion and is celebrated as a means of meditation and contemplation of transcendent realities.

The conference will be the last event of the present Nordforsk funded project period, and it will also address and present the possibilities for a continuation of the research into possible new structures.

The format of the conference will include keynotes addresses and invited speakers, individual papers, panels and poster presentations. We welcome proposals for all these formants and encourage joint papers as well as alternative forms of presentations including screenings of footage/films, music performances and/or testimonies.

Since the start of the network special attention has been given to PhD scholars. Four seminars have been offered in relation to the meetings and workshops of the larger network. Accordingly, we encourage PhD students working in field related to censorship, freedom of expression and human right in music to attend the conference.

The conference will be held in University of Copenhagen, Southern Campus site room 24.0.49. There will be no conference fee, but non-members of the network are kindly asked to pay for their own travel and accommodation. The organisers will assist all participants in getting accommodation in Copenhagen.

A publication based on selected papers from the conference is being planned.

Please send your proposal abstract (250 words) + name, short biography (5 lines) and contact information to kirkegd@hum.ku.dk

Deadline for call for papers is February 6th 2013.

Organizing committee:

  • Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
  • Jan Sverre Knudsen, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway
  • Jonas Otterbeck, Lund University, Sweden
  • Annemette Kirkegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The network is funded by NordForsk and more information on past activities can be

accessed at: www.rmc.ku.dk

Publication : « Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music », Doris Leibetseder

Now available from Ashgate Publishing…

Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music, Doris Leibetseder, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt (Austria)

Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade, mimesis/mimicry, cyborg, transsexuality, and dildo. Queer Tracks is a revised translation of Queere Tracks. Subversive Strategien in Rock- und Popmusik, originally published in German.

Contents: Introduction: historical prelude; Irony – the cutting edge; Parody – gender trouble; Camp – queer revolt in style; Mask/masquerade – transforming the gaze; Mimesis/mimicry – poetic aesthetic; Cyborg – transhuman; Trans* – border wars?; Dildo –gender blender; Fade out: looking forward; Bibliography; Index.

Sample pages are available to view online at: www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409437024

Dr.in Mag.a Doris Leibetseder
Zentrum für Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien
Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
Sterneckstrasse 15
9020 Klagenfurt/Celovec
Österreich/Austria 
Tel: +43/463/2700-1021
E-mail: doris.leibetseder@aau.at Homepage: http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/dleibets/wordpress/

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Doris Leibetseder: Queere Tracks. Subversive Strategien in der Rock- und Popmusik.
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ISBN: 978-3-8376-1193-9
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Parution: Elisabeth Pillet et Marie-Eve Thérenty (dir), Presse, chansons et culture orale au XIXe siècle. La parole vive au défi de l’ère médiatique

Elisabeth Pillet et Marie-Eve Thérenty (dir),

Presse, chansons et culture orale au XIXe siècle.

La parole vive au défi de l’ère médiatique

nouveau monde éditions, 2012

Au XIXe siècle, la société française entre dans la civilisation du journal, marquée par la périodicité et le flux médiatique ; une culture de masse imprimée se décline à travers des formes nouvelles (romans-feuilletons, journaux bon marché, etc.). Mais si le public urbain est friand de journaux, il est tout aussi demandeur de chansons et textes parlés, partagés dans la convivialité. La culture orale connaît alors des bouleversements majeurs grâce à de nouveaux lieux et sociabilités : goguettes et cafés-concerts, cabarets et music-halls.
Là encore, la presse joue un rôle décisif : médiatisant certains lieux, oeuvres et artistes, elle crée le vedettariat, avec des personnalités comme Thérésa ou Yvette Guilbert. Dans le même temps, certaines chansons ou textes à dire offrent un miroir critique à la révolution médiatique.
Cet ouvrage, contribution importante aux recherches récentes sur la culture médiatique, explore pour la première fois les interactions entre presse, chanson et culture orale, jusqu’ici étudiées indépendamment les unes des autres. Ni l’étude de la presse, ni celle de la chanson ne pourra dorénavant être traitée tout à fait de la même façon.

Call for papers: Music and Diplomacy

CALL FOR PAPERS: MUSIC AND DIPLOMACY

Tufts University and Harvard University, March 1-2, 2013

How does music (its concepts, practices, and institutions) shape the exercise of diplomacy, the pursuit of power, and the conduct of international relations? Scholars are increasingly asking these questions from a variety of disciplinary standpoints. While some have highlighted the ritual function of European court entertainments in the development of modern diplomatic practices, others have pondered the construction of (a)political meaning in musical events. From the musical performance of political conflict to the cultural conditions of peacemaking, scholars and practitioners have investigated the purposes and effects of music as “cultural diplomacy,” “public diplomacy,” “soft,” “smart,” and/or “sticky” power. Diplomatic patronage of all kinds of music (from opera to jazz to hip hop), the music-making of diplomats themselves, and the development of celebrity diplomacy have raised further questions about the politicized consumption of music.

This conference aims to provide a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars from various historical standpoints and diverse disciplines, including (but not limited to): musicology and ethnomusicology, government (international relations, political theory), peace studies, cultural studies, history, sociology, psychology, literature, and communication.

Keynote speakers include Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Associate Professor of Music at The Ohio State University.

We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words, sent as email attachments to musicanddiplomacy@gmail.com. Please include contact information and affiliation (if any) in your abstract, as well as anticipated audio equipment needs.

The deadline for submissions is November 19. Revised versions of papers will be considered for an edited volume planned for publication.

The conference is hosted by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, with support from the Mellon Foundation.

Co-organizers: Rebekah Ahrendt, Mark Ferraguto, Damien Mahiet

Parution: Stéphane Dorin (dir.) Sound Factory

Stéphane Dorin (dir.)

Sound Factory

Présentation

“D’une révolution à l’autre”. C’est le titre que Jeremy Deller avait choisi pour son exposition au Palais de Tokyo afin de souligner les liens inattendus entre le déclin de l’industrie manufacturière et la naissance de l’industrie musicale.

Les contributions de chercheurs en sciences sociales, réunis ici sous la direction de Stéphane Dorin, et précédées d’un entretien avec Jeremy Deller, prennent toutes au sérieux les musiques populaires, dans leurs dimensions industrielles et commerciales, mais aussi dans leur propension à renouveler les pratiques culturelles, les politiques économiques et les esthétiques.

Révolutionnaires, les musiques le sont donc bel et bien, à la fois par leurs origines lointaines, dans la naissance du capitalisme industriel et commercial au XIXe siècle, et par leur impact, numérique ou non, sur nos manières d’écouter, de voir et de vivre ensemble au début du XXIe siècle. D’une révolution à l’autre, les musiques populaires sont toujours aux avant-postes des transformations sociales à l’œuvre dans les sociétés contemporaines.

Sommaire

  • Stéphane Dorin : Introduction. Musiques populaires et logiques industrielles
  • Jeremy Deller : conversation avec Julien Fronsacq :« J’aime tout ce mélange… »
  • Simon Frith : L’industrialisation de la musique
  • Patrick Mignon : Culture populaire et innovation musicale : les origines industrielles du rock anglais
  • Stéphane Dorin : Deviens une superstar. Démocratie du génie et capitalisme flexible dans la Factory de Warhol
  • Vincent Arquillière : Industrial Music by Industrial People : Factory, le son de l’usine
  • Gérôme Guibert : La notion de scène locale. Pour une approche renouvelée de l’analyse des courants musicaux
  • Philippe Bouquillion : Mutations des industries musicales et actualité des théories des industries culturelles
  • David Hesmondhalgh : La musique et le numérique : au-delà du battage
  • Bibliographie