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Papers by Jeanette Gallant
Anacrusis, 2020
and has held positions at various institutions in Canada, S.E. Asia, and the United Kingdom. Her ... more and has held positions at various institutions in Canada, S.E. Asia, and the United Kingdom. Her work creating research-based cross-cultural choral projects has garnered her invitations to talk at various universities and cultural institutions. One of her arrangements, "Marie Madeleine", has been published by Oxford University Press. Her most recent academic publication can be found in the Yale Journal of Music and Religion.
Yale Journal of Music & Religion, 2017
The adoption and spread of ultramontane spirituality in nineteenth-century Canada contributed to ... more The adoption and spread of ultramontane spirituality in nineteenth-century Canada contributed to the development of specific public cultures in Catholic communities across the country. The extent to which music, as a vehicle of this religious ideology, helped to shape the identity of French Canadian minority populations offers a rich locus of study yet to be explored. This paper examines the patriotic songs of the Acadians, a francophone minority exiled from Atlantic Canada during Canadian colonization. It explores not only how religion, nationalism, and economic development were interconnected in nineteenth-century French Canada, but how religious and nationalist ideologies were intermixed and communicated through song in resettled Acadian communities after Canadian confederation in 1867. 1 By offering an explanation of how Acadian patriotic songs operated as a form of devotional practice, this study elucidates how the interaction between religious thought and musical sociability helped construct social sameness as this religiously prescribed sense of national identity was embraced in Acadian Catholic schools and print culture during the first half of the twentieth century. The Political and Musical Origins of Ultramontanism in Canada Ultramontanism was a religious and cultural form of nationalism that was introduced to Catholics in nineteenth-century French-speaking Lower Canada. The term ultramontanederived from the medieval Latin ultramontanus, meaning "beyond the mountains"-traditionally has been used in reference to northern European attachment to the authority of the pope (located in the south beyond the Alps), rather than to a regional or national form of monarchical or religious rule. In postrevolutionary France, ultramontane clerics promoted the notion of papal power from afar not only to oppose state authority, but to create an "all-embracing Catholic unity" regardless of where the faithful were located. 2 The ultramontanism that later emerged in Canada, while centralized in Quebec, was conceived as an église-nation-a church-centered 1 The Acadian deportations took place from 1755 to 1763 and led to the separation of many Acadian families.
Critical Discourse Studies, 2014
This paper looks at the role that musical discourse played in shaping a dialectical construction ... more This paper looks at the role that musical discourse played in shaping a dialectical construction of social identity for the Acadians during French Canada’s nationalist movement at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining how the Acadians were represented in the press, this analysis serves to identify how discursive practices manifested competing notions of victimization and empowerment in Acadian society. Considering musical discourse as a reflection of cultural power relations occurring between the Acadians and Canada’s largest francophone population in Quebec, this paper assesses identity-formation in relation to how the aesthetic and the political intersected as musical discourse was used to promote the socio-political interests of nationalists in Quebec.
Critical Discourse Studies, 2014
Anacrusis, 2020
and has held positions at various institutions in Canada, S.E. Asia, and the United Kingdom. Her ... more and has held positions at various institutions in Canada, S.E. Asia, and the United Kingdom. Her work creating research-based cross-cultural choral projects has garnered her invitations to talk at various universities and cultural institutions. One of her arrangements, "Marie Madeleine", has been published by Oxford University Press. Her most recent academic publication can be found in the Yale Journal of Music and Religion.
Yale Journal of Music & Religion, 2017
The adoption and spread of ultramontane spirituality in nineteenth-century Canada contributed to ... more The adoption and spread of ultramontane spirituality in nineteenth-century Canada contributed to the development of specific public cultures in Catholic communities across the country. The extent to which music, as a vehicle of this religious ideology, helped to shape the identity of French Canadian minority populations offers a rich locus of study yet to be explored. This paper examines the patriotic songs of the Acadians, a francophone minority exiled from Atlantic Canada during Canadian colonization. It explores not only how religion, nationalism, and economic development were interconnected in nineteenth-century French Canada, but how religious and nationalist ideologies were intermixed and communicated through song in resettled Acadian communities after Canadian confederation in 1867. 1 By offering an explanation of how Acadian patriotic songs operated as a form of devotional practice, this study elucidates how the interaction between religious thought and musical sociability helped construct social sameness as this religiously prescribed sense of national identity was embraced in Acadian Catholic schools and print culture during the first half of the twentieth century. The Political and Musical Origins of Ultramontanism in Canada Ultramontanism was a religious and cultural form of nationalism that was introduced to Catholics in nineteenth-century French-speaking Lower Canada. The term ultramontanederived from the medieval Latin ultramontanus, meaning "beyond the mountains"-traditionally has been used in reference to northern European attachment to the authority of the pope (located in the south beyond the Alps), rather than to a regional or national form of monarchical or religious rule. In postrevolutionary France, ultramontane clerics promoted the notion of papal power from afar not only to oppose state authority, but to create an "all-embracing Catholic unity" regardless of where the faithful were located. 2 The ultramontanism that later emerged in Canada, while centralized in Quebec, was conceived as an église-nation-a church-centered 1 The Acadian deportations took place from 1755 to 1763 and led to the separation of many Acadian families.
Critical Discourse Studies, 2014
This paper looks at the role that musical discourse played in shaping a dialectical construction ... more This paper looks at the role that musical discourse played in shaping a dialectical construction of social identity for the Acadians during French Canada’s nationalist movement at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining how the Acadians were represented in the press, this analysis serves to identify how discursive practices manifested competing notions of victimization and empowerment in Acadian society. Considering musical discourse as a reflection of cultural power relations occurring between the Acadians and Canada’s largest francophone population in Quebec, this paper assesses identity-formation in relation to how the aesthetic and the political intersected as musical discourse was used to promote the socio-political interests of nationalists in Quebec.
Critical Discourse Studies, 2014