scholarly journals La scène comme nouvelle culture visuelle : entre effervescence urbaine, visibilité et circulation des images numériques

2016 ◽  
pp. 115-131
Author(s):  
Hela Zahar ◽  
Jonathan Roberge

L’étude des scènes culturelles apparue dans les années quatre-vingt-dix a été rapidement assimilée au champ des popular music studies et ce, dans une volonté de trouver une alternative aux notions de contre- ou de sous-culture. La polysémie et la malléabilité du terme ont ainsi donné lieu à des efforts souvent disparates ayant pour thème la sonorité ou le «  son  » d’une ville. Or si le son rythme bel et bien l’urbanité et lui donne son effervescence, n’y a-t-il pas lieu également de s’interroger sur la manière dont les images fournissent davantage qu’un simple décor en donnant précisément vie et corps à la ville  ? L’objectif de ce texte est de réfléchir au concept de scène à partir d’une focale encore sous-exploitée, à savoir celle des visual cultural studies. Comment l’image devient-elle performative et comment entre-t-elle en scène formant du coup une sorte de surproduction culturelle  ? Comment la circulation des images peut-elle engendrer de nouvelles expériences de socialité  ? Le propos est illustré à partir de l’étude du Street art et plus particulièrement du calligraffiti à Montréal — mais également dans la manière dont ce dernier trouve échos à Paris, Beyrouth et Tunis. En tant qu’articulation du local, du translocal et du virtuel, cette pratique émergente doit permettre de comprendre comment la circulation et la mise en visibilité des images, dans un contexte contemporain d’hétérogénéité culturelle, d’hybridation artistique et de controverses sociales, peut susciter de nouveaux enjeux et codes politico-culturels.

Popular Music ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Echard

The analysis presented in this paper is one result of my interest in embodiment, and its potential role in the semiotic analysis of popular music. In cultural studies and symbolic anthropology, theorists often read the body as a carrier of codes, a surface for the inscription and negotiation of meaning. In popular music studies, this viewpoint often appears in fairly simple ways, and it also sometimes appears in a more subtle fashion. Richard Middleton, for example, considers the body both as a code-bearing surface, and as the ground for musical feeling, exploring how embodied experiences generate and interact with other levels of code (Middleton 1990, 1993). Similar things are done by Frith (1996), Walser (1993), Brackett 1995), and others.


Author(s):  
Dr Daragh O’Reilly ◽  
Dr Gretchen Larsen ◽  
Dr Krzysztof Kubacki

A fully international and scholarly analysis integrating the unique popular music sector both within arts marketing and current marketing and consumption theories. Music, Markets and Consumption offers an up-to-date business-theoretical reading of the music business which complements viewpoints from other disciplines. It will be a much needed new perspective for students and scholars in music studies, cultural studies, marketing and consumer studies who wish to gain further insight into commercial aspects of music.


Popular Music ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Cloonan

Recent years have seen two noticeable trends in Popular Music Studies. These have been on the one hand a series of works which have tried to document the ‘local’ music scene and, on the other, accounts of processes of globalisation. While not uninterested in the intermediate Nation-State level, both trends have tended to regard it as an area of increasingly less importance. To state the matter more boldly, both trends have underplayed the continually important role of the Nation-State.


Tempo ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (274) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Ben Jameson

AbstractThe electric guitar is one of the most iconic musical instruments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and, due to its ubiquitous use in much rock and popular music, it has developed a strong cultural identity. In recent years, as the electric guitar has become increasingly common in contemporary concert music, its cultural associations have inevitably shaped how composers, performers and listeners understand music performed on the instrument. This article investigates various issues relating to the electric guitar's cultural identity in the context of Tristan Murail's Vampyr! (1984), in the hope of demonstrating perspectives that will be useful in considering new music for the electric guitar more generally. The article draws both on established analytical approaches to Murail's spectral oeuvre and on concepts from popular music and cultural studies, in order to analyse the influence that the electric guitar's associations from popular culture have in new music.


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