ADEFFI (l'Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d'Irlande)

Annual Conference 2001

samedi 27 octobre 2001

Dublin City University

Langues: anglais, français, irlandais

Call for papers

Music, Song, Art and Society

Periods of transformation and revolution in Francophone societies have always been accompanied by music and song. From the chanson de geste to the Music Hall of the war years, from the Court music of the seventeenth century to the songs of the Resistance, these two related but at times antithetical modes of expression have never ceased to play a central role in worlds which are constantly changing. The study of music and song (hymns, refrains, nursery rhymes, etc.), but also the study of the musician and the singer are familiar themes of literature and painting. Moreover, the figure of the singer-songwriter-musician occupies an important position in Francophone popular culture of all periods. And, more recently, music and song have become an integral part of the new arts, such as cinema and the bande dessinée. Proposals are invited on the different interactions between music, song, culture and society, of any period, and on their role in forging, transforming or destroying a national entity and identity. The conference welcomes papers from those involved in all aspects of cultural, literary, musical or sociological research within the area of French and Francophone studies. Papers will be twenty minutes in length. Ten minutes per paper will be allocated for discussion.

Please E-mail abstracts of no more than 300 words by July 8, 2001.

Contacts:

jean-philippe.imbert@dcu.ie

Darach Sanfey, P.R. Officer / Responsable de la publicité, ADEFFI
Department of French, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, South Circular Road, Limerick.
Tel.: + 353 61 204345 Fax: + 353 61 313632 e-mail : darach.sanfey@mic.ul.ie http://www.mic.ul.ie/