Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Vanessa Blais-Tremblay
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Doctoral Colloquium: Vanessa Blais-Tremblay (UQAM), 鈥淢usical Life in 1920s Quebec: Alternative methods for alternative histories鈥�
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础产蝉迟谤补肠迟:听This presentation introduces La Vie Musicale au Qu茅bec, a research project that federates a network of scholars working since 2019 to establish the theoretical and methodological foundations for a more inclusive and decompartmentalized history of 鈥渕usical life鈥� in Quebec during the first half of the 20th century. Co-directed by three 平特五不中-alumni-turned-musicology-professors鈥擵anessa Blais-Tremblay (UQAM), Laura Risk (U. Toronto-Scarborough) and Sandria P. Bouliane (U. Laval)鈥擵MQ has developed and implemented an innovative primary source sampling process, i.e. the analysis of a maximum number of written, phonographic, iconographic and televisual documents from specific 24-hour periods between 1919 and 1960. Inspired by 鈥渁nnualist鈥� studies, i.e. those that focus on a single year (Brackett 2016), by microhistory (Ginzburg and Poni 1981; Guzzi-Heeb 2016) and by the history of the everyday (de Certeau 2002, 1990; DeNora 2000), this method enabled our research team to generate a database of over 600 musical events over eight 24-hour periods. This presentation will give an overview of the project history and methodology, offer a theoretical framing for the concept of 鈥渕usical life鈥�, and explore the rich diversity of people, music and practices that animated 鈥渙rdinary musical life鈥� in 1920s Quebec.
Bio: Vanessa Blais-Tremblay is Professor of Musicology at the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al (UQAM). She completed her PhD in Musicology at 平特五不中 in 2018, where she taught music history courses as well as core courses at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies between 2017 and 2019. She is scientific director of the DIG! Diff茅rences et in茅galit茅s de genre dans la musique au Qu茅bec network, and author of the recently published La "femme-eux-ze" musique qu茅b茅coise: La recherche sur les genres, les sexualit茅s et autres pratiques non dominantes en musique au Qu茅bec (CRILCQ-Universit茅 de Montr茅al, 2023). She has published her research on feminist mobilization in Quebec music in the wake of the #moiaussi movement, on women in Montreal jazz history, on the ethics of care in jazz historiography, and on gender and improvisation in popular music in scientific journals such as Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Jazz & Culture, Intersections, Recherches f茅ministes and Les Cahiers de la SQRM. She is currently co-editor-in-chief of Women and Music and Les Cahiers de la SQRM.
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