Chansonnier (singer)

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In Quebec, Canada, "a chansonnier is[1] a poet songwriter, solitary singer, who sings his own songs (chansons) with a guitar, during the 1960s and 1970s. Compared to the popular singer, the chansonnier needs no artifice to sing his soul poetry. He performs in «Les Boites à Chansons».[2][3][4] which are flourishing in those years. His themes songs vary but include nature, love, simplcity, and a social interest to improve his world. The chansonnier is making way for social and political awareness during the Quiet Revolution,[5] (La Révolution Tranquille) that leads to the affirmation of Quebecers' National identity.[6]

French-Canadian chansonniers

(listed alphabetically by surname)

  • Geneviève Aubin-Bertrand
  • Jacques Blanchet
  • La Bolduc
  • Hervé Brousseau
  • Monique Brunet
  • Pierre Calvé
  • Christine Charbonneau
  • Gervaises Desbiens-Roy
  • Clémence Desrochers
  • Serge Deyglun
  • Lorainne Diot
  • Georges Dor
  • Jean-Pierre Ferland
  • Jean-Paul Fillion
  • Louise Forestier
  • Claude Gauthier
  • Marc Gélinas
  • Suzanne Jacob
  • Pauline Julien
  • Mado de L'Isle
  • Jacques Labrecque
  • Georges Langford
  • Christian Larsen
  • Marie Lavigueur
  • Félix Leclerc
  • Tex Lecor
  • Sylvain Lelièvre
  • Jacqueline Lemay
  • Pierre Létourneau
  • Claude Léveillé
  • Raymond Levesque
  • Monique Miville-Deschênes
  • Priscilla
  • Marie Savard
  • Gilles Vigneault

References

  • The reference used here is an exhaustive work on women songwriters in Quebec, which cover the period of 1960 to 1976. The female names that are listed above are those found in the chapter 9 'Les chansonnières', page 95 to 119, which correspond to the period of the cultural phenomenon). «La chanson écrite au féminin». An extensive research in musicology written by Cécile Tremblay-Matte.«La chanson écrite au féminin de Madeleine de Verchères à Mitsou 1730-1990», Éditions Trois, 2033 avenue Jessop, Laval, Québec. Diffusion pour le Canada, DMR, 3700 A boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, et pour l'Europe, Les Diffusions du Solstice, 363 B Chaussée de Waterloo, Bruxelles, Belgique. Données de catalogage avant publication (Canada) ISBN 2-920887-16-5 .«La chanson écrite au féminin», Collection Trois Guinées dirigée par Anne-Marie Alonso. Dépot légal- BNQ, BNC troisième trimestre 1990, contient 391 pages.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Chansonnier definition as intended in Quebec",http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000664
  2. ↑ "Paragraph 6, "After 1960 the boites à chansons increased in number concurrently with Quebec's Quiet Revolution, a powerful movement of economic and cultural emancipation (...)",http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000663
  3. ↑ "Thanks to Félix Leclerc', the new Québec song (chanson) would become the natural path for the collective identity of all Quebeckers and the first Ambassador of this Society in complete mutation...",http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=Q1ARTQ0000663
  4. ↑ "Boites à chansons",http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000352
  5. ↑ "Paragraph 8, "http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000663
  6. ↑ "The chansonniers were making way for social and polical awareness, the affirmation of Québec's growing national identity",http://books.google.ca/books?id=pJvzEzjahkQC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=Chansonnier+and+Quebec%27s+national+identity&source=bl&ots=e866eUSUN8&sig=3r33Hnj4hcQ2FMtQrfYnaqT-LxU&hl=en&ei=Y5vPTuPYGoH40gHWroTzDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Chansonnier%20and%20Quebec%27s%20national%20identity&f=false
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