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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Signe/Symptôme/Fonction : les dispositifs esthétiques de l'avant-garde / Sign/Symptom/Function : the aesthetic devices of avant-garde

Durand, Emmanuel 10 October 2017 (has links)
Pour un artiste, prendre la voie de ce qu’on nomme communément « représentation », de la figuration et de la narration, conduit finalement à méconnaître et même manquer l’enjeu véritable de la démarche à laquelle il aspire. C’est choisir la reproduction du monde au détriment de l’invention. L’œuvre esthétique ne précède pas sa concrétisation : son sens tend vers l’indétermination par absence d’une signification prévisible qui est comme retardée, déjouée par l’opacité formelle de l’œuvre.Cet engagement s’exprime de multiples façons dans le projet d’avant-garde. C’est pourquoi le parti pris esthétique et le désir d’avant-garde doivent être clairement définis. S’ils se traduisent par une suspension du contenu (sémantique, idéologique, critique), c’est qu’ils proposent, par le détour de la forme, d’interroger les principes mêmes qui organisent les modes de représentation du monde. L’œuvre d’art devient la scène d’un dispositif à la fois sémantique, biographique et socio-fonctionnel. Ce dispositif est qualifié d’esthétique, plutôt que seulement artistique, parce que ses ramifications et ses enjeux s’étendent bien au delà de ce qu’on appelle « art », jusque dans ce qu’on appelle « philosophie ». Cette étude se situe dans les dispositifs paradigmatiques post-XIXe siècle. Elle prend la forme d’une anthologie sélective de dispositifs esthétiques. Elle en expose les problématiques principales. Comment appréhender une œuvre dont le sens se soustrait activement aux systèmes sémantiques établis ? Pourquoi et par quels procédés la composante formelle peut-elle endosser la légitimité d’une création pertinente ? De quoi ces nouvelles pratiques sont-elles les symptômes du point de vue de notre conception actuelle du monde ? Autrement dit, quelle est la fonction de l’art aujourd’hui ? / As an artist, to choose what is commonly called “representation”, figuration and narration eventually leads to a misconception of the real stake to which he aspires. This means choosing to reproduce rather than creating. The aesthetic work of art does not precede its construction because its meaning tends toward indetermination caused by the lack of a predictable signification which is suspended, obstructed by the formal characteristic of the work of art. This posture is visible in the avant-garde project. It also explains why the aesthetic committed position and the avant-garde desire must be clearly defined. If they don’t suspend the content it is linked to the fact that they suggest the formal characteristics of the work of art, to question the principles which organize our representations. Hence, the work of art becomes at the same time a semantic, biographical and socio-fonctionnal device. It is qualified as aesthetic rather than just artistic because its ramifications and its stake go way beyond what we usually call “art” and reaches what we call “philosophy”. This survey stands in the context of the post-19th century paradigms. It intends to be a selective anthology of aesthetic devices. It exposes their main problematic : how to apprehend a piece of art which meaning escapes an established semantic system? Why and by which processes, the formal characteristics of a work of art can be endowed with the legitimacy of a relevant creation? What can these new practices teach us about our current conceptions of the world? In other words, what function does art serve today?
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UNINTERRUPTED CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR EEGUN: PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS FOR METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE RESEARCH OF AFRICAN MUSIC AND THE MUSIC OF JOHN COLTRANE

Love, Aaron Anyabwile January 2014 (has links)
African music and its musicians from the Pharaonic periods to Mali to the Mississippi Delta to the South Bronx have contributed some of the most lasting and influential cultural creations known. The music and musicians of Africa have been studied as early as the early 18th century. As interest in African music grew so did the discipline of ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology has sought to understand, interpret and catalog the various areas of African music. In the United States interest in the music as a continuation of African culture was also sought after and investigated as an important area of research. The main objective of this project is to help expand the methodological approaches in the study of African Diasporan musical cultures and their practitioners. The author undertook a critical examination of the previous works on the subject made by both Continental and Diasporan African scholars, in addition to fieldwork in the United States and Africa (Ghana). Through considering the work songs of Pharaonic Egypt, the cosmogram of the Bantu-Kongo and the life of John Coltrane in particular this proposed work articulates new methodological tools in the research of African music and musicians. / African American Studies

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