ISS 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Les Colocs, Gilles Vigneault, Quebec French
30 Oct 2016
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Reading guide: piroth popular music and identity in quebec . Flags are metonymic objects they are so closely identified with countries that reference to its flag is a reference to the country. Thus the act of burning the flag is a provocation and an attack on the country or flying flag at half staff (en berne) expresses the sorrow of a nation. Banal refers to the everyday, the commonplace, those things we take for granted. The banal may be boring but it isn"t bad. Banal things that don"t stand out, that are so much a part of our lives we don"t notice them but would miss them if they were absent. Billing suggests, the flag hanging unnoticed on a public building that is the unconscious reminder of who and what we are as a nation. Led to the emergence of a class of quebecois celebrities and television shows that appeal almost exclusively to quebecers.
