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Chanter les poètes avec (ou sans) les maths
No full textStarting from a personal experience in turning texts by poets into songs, I will show how mathematics might shed some new light on our understanding of the relation between poetry and music. After recalling the conflictual relations between poetry and chanson, I will focus on a geometric representation of the harmonic space – the Tonnetz – that enabled me to propose an original perspective on poetic song writing through the concept of ‘Hamiltonian song’. Two musical examples will illustrate the flexibility of this formal approach in poetry-based song writing
Das Protestlied „Le déserteur“ von Boris Vian: Wahrnehmung und Aneignung in Frankreich und in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland der 1960er Jahre
Full text linkThere is hardly any other politically committed chanson from France which received as much response worldwide as “Le déserteur” by Boris Vian. “Le déserteur” was censored by French public radio and caused great unrest during the already heated period of the Indochinese and Algerian wars of independence. With the pacifist Easter March movement in Germany and a few years later with the increasing protest against the Vietnam War, the war resister became a symbol of various political struggles that allied a generation. From a transnational perspective, this essay examines the reception and appropriation of this subversive protest song that conveyed war resistance and disobedience
Le jour où le Poète reprit sa lyre. « Down by the Salley Gardens » ou la nostalgie des origines
No full textThe Irish poet Yeats tells the story that as he was walking one day in the Ballisodare countryside, he heard a woman singing some remnants of a very old song that moved him. The poem that he then wrote is, he assures us: “an attempt to reconstruct an old song from three lines imperfectly remembered by an old peasant woman in the village of Ballisodare, Sligo, who often sings them to herself” (Yeats 1889, 90).Weaving together reverie and thought in “Down by the Salley Gardens”, this poem of Yeats that became, in its turn a song again, I have tried to approach this land where poetry and music are still reaching out for each other, animated by an ever present longing for a common root: that of a time where words and sounds were not yet divided
Rivalités mimétiques entre les arts : musique/littérature
No full textThe comparative method in literature, as it has been conceived in the romantic milieu, has always considered analogy, similarity, exchange, as the main reference criteria in criticism. Such criteria are partly due to a political (and ideological) perspective that we tend to apply to the phenomenon of art production. Our reference model is in fact the modern social exchange of men and things in liberal society. Nevertheless, hermeneutic profitability in art is mostly based on distinction and mimetic rivalry
« L(’)Égalité veut d’autres lois » Légalité, légitimité, et parole pamphlétaire chez Eugène Pottier.
No full textThis article intends to analyze the literary transcription of themes and structures in the work of Eugène Pottier which revolve around the fact of being an outlaw. Pottier, a French socialist songwriter of the 19th century, is best known for being the author of “L’Internationale”. The article also tries to show how protest songs can deal with the question of being against the law
Media, Migration, and the Emergence of Scriptural Authority
No full textThe article explores the relationship between media and migration in the development of the authority that sacred writings gained in ancient Israel and early Judaism. The question is framed using media theory, applied to the development of writing in the ancient Near East. A historical reconstruction of the migration of scribes and the transport of manuscripts, especially during the Babylonian exile and the return migration of Judeans in the Persian era, provides the background for considering three literary representations of the relationship between migration and scriptural authority: the extraterritoriality of divine revelation in the Pentateuch, the authorization of Torah after the return from Babylonia as reflected in the figure of Ezra, and its translation into Greek in the Hellenistic period, dramatized as narrative in the Letter of Aristeas. The article comes to the conclusion that transpositions through migration intensified the importance of writings as focal points of collective identity and thus contributed to their growing authority.Der Artikel untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen Medien und Migration in der Entwicklung der Autorität sakraler Schriften im alten Israel und entstehenden Judentum. Die Analyse erfolgt im Rahmen einer medientheoretischen Reflexion über die Entwicklung der Schriftkultur im alten Orient. Eine historische Rekonstruktion der Migration von Schreibern und des Transports von Manuskripten, besonders im Kontext des Babylonischen Exils und der Rückkehr von Judäern in persischer Zeit, bietet die Grundlage für die Auswertung von drei literarischen Repräsentationen des Zusammenhangs von Migration und Schriftautorität: der Extraterritorialität der Offenbarung im Pentateuch, der Autorisierung der Tora nach der Rückkehr aus Babylonien, wie sie sich in der Gestalt Esras zeigt, und deren Übersetzung ins Griechische, narrativ dramatisiert im Aristeasbrief. Der Artikel kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Transpositionen durch Migration zu einer größeren Bedeutung von Schriften als Brennpunkte kollektiver Identität führten und so zu deren wachsender Autorität beitrugen
