Some have said I ‘manipulated history’: René Lussier on sound archives, people’s voices and Quebec history in Le trésor de la langue

Velasco-Pufleau, Luis; Lussier, René (2022). Some have said I ‘manipulated history’: René Lussier on sound archives, people’s voices and Quebec history in Le trésor de la langue. Music, Sound and Conflict OpenEdition 10.58079/rny2

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Le trésor de la langue (1989) is a unique musical work. A kind of sonic ‘road movie’, it explores the political, historical and poetic dimensions of French as it is spoken in Quebec. In 1989, the work was awarded the Prix Paul Gilson by the Communauté des radios publiques de langue française (CRPLF), while the composition project dates back to 1986. This interview tracks the creative process of the Le trésor de la langue as well as some of the ethical and political issues involved in the use of sound archives and field recordings in this work. It explores music composition’s capacity to scrutinize recent history in order to answer shared questions, beyond what is spoken and unspoken within collective memory and official history.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg)
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Musicology

UniBE Contributor:

Velasco Pufleau, Luis Alberto

Subjects:

700 Arts > 780 Music
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
900 History

ISSN:

2556-6652

Publisher:

OpenEdition

Language:

English

Submitter:

Luis Alberto Velasco Pufleau

Date Deposited:

26 May 2023 16:26

Last Modified:

28 Feb 2024 12:03

Publisher DOI:

10.58079/rny2

Uncontrolled Keywords:

music and politics, sound archives, listening, Canada - Québec, Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), René Lussier

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/182951

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