Est-ce que les nouvelles technologies permettent un nouveau rapprochement social?   Vers une définition de la technologie De façon générale on pourrait dire que la technologie est neutre, ce qui n’est pas neutre c’est le sens que nous y investissons. De façon générale parce qu’il y a des exceptions, comme la technologie de la [...]

http://www.realitynation.com/tv-shows/reality-tv/most-evil-2012-poll/25497/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/389/frenemies (vers 23:10, “Act Two” au coeur du genre:  “frenemies”) La télé-réalité est devenu un aspect structurant des médias… L’étendu mondial de l’émission Big Brother: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_%28TV_series%29 Puisqu’il est incontournable, par quel angle devrait-on analyser ce phénomène?  D’un point de vue morale il semble nous ramener dans nos instincts les plus bas, où le regard [...]

  Volosinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (Harvard 1986 (1929)) « Language acquires life and historically evolves precisely here, in concrete verbal communication, and not in the abstract linguistic system of language forms, nor in the individual psyche of speakers »  95        “Each and every word expresses the « one » in relation to the [...]

Industries culturelles, critique idéologique, théorie de l’articulation À lire avant le cours : Teodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer, « L’industrie culturelle » Walter Benjamin, « L’oeuvre d’art à l’époque de sa reproduction mécanisée » Les marchandises culturelles sont comme les autres marchandises: ils sont à vendre et la source de leur valeur est cachée, écart entre [...]

This program is made possible by: Culture Populisme Préjugés Populaire (“mainstream”) Pop Jouer avec les mots c’est un jeu sérieux… Gadamer:  “You have to listen to words.  I have often told my students that they must develop an ear for the implications of the words they use.” (“Culture and Media”) La démarche “keywords” de Raymond [...]

    For Love of Country: Generation and Genre in Popular Music Videos in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo « Bambinga FARDC », one of hundreds of music videos that are produced every year in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), is remarkable not only because it explicitly references politics, something which is extremely rare in the popular dance music [...]

The edited volume “Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters” is now available at Indiana University Press. Each chapter has an accompanying multi-media project which you can consult while you read by clicking on the links available from the Critical World homepage. For more information about the book or to purchase a copy, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/a/MUSGLP Here is [...]

Strategies for Non-Essentialist Listening   This article was created to accompany a text that appeared in the edited volume entitled “Music and Globalization:  Critical Encounters” (Indiana University Press, 2012). For more information, visit:  http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/a/MUSGLP   Sound is the same for all the world Everybody has a heart Everybody gets a feeling Let’s play!  Sound box! [...]

This article was created to accompany a text that appeared in the edited volume entitled “Music and Globalization:  Critical Encounters” (Indiana University Press, 2012). For more information, visit:  http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/a/MUSGLP Rarámuri violin music in a cross-border space One of the more illuminating encounters I had during my fieldwork in Mexico took place on the outskirts of [...]

This article was created to accompany a text that appeared in the edited volume entitled “Music and Globalization:  Critical Encounters” (Indiana University Press, 2012). For more information, visit:  http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/a/MUSGLP Since the early 1980s I have been tracking “world music.” I place that term immediately in quotes to indicate that I don’t use it transparently, as [...]

Globalization, Music and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Vanuatu This article was created to accompany a text that appeared in the edited volume entitled “Music and Globalization:  Critical Encounters” (Indiana University Press, 2012). For more information, visit:  http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/a/MUSGLP Bolton (1999) explores the modern ni-Vanuatu notion of kastom and the manner in which it has developed through [...]

  This article was created to accompany a text that appeared in the edited volume entitled “Music and Globalization:  Critical Encounters” (Indiana University Press, 2012). For more information, visit:  http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/a/MUSGLP The life of the Senegambian Afro-Cuban singer Laba Sosseh challenges this rigid vantage point and undermines many of the facile suppositions on world music scholarship. [...]