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cincinnatus_c) wrote2021-07-28 12:40 am
cincinnatus_c) wrote2021-07-28 12:40 am
Scherzando
I could've sworn I once said something on here about Charles-Valentin Alkan probably not having actually been killed by a falling Talmud, and also Tori Amos for some reason, but I can't find it for the life of me ... and for years and years I couldn't for the life of me find this, after I lost access to the Naxos streaming service, having neglected to record its name and serial number, before finally coming up with it on the youtubes tonight:
If that ain't the most awesome piece of music I've ever heard that was written by someone I just as easily might never have heard of, on an instrument I have never otherwise heard of, I sure don't know what is.
Well, while I'm here--the fact that Canada now has a governor-general who speaks Inuktitut but not French, and that apparently no one outside of Quebec thinks it's a problem that she doesn't speak French (but plenty of people outside of Quebec seem to think it's a problem if anyone thinks it's a problem that she doesn't speak one of our colonial languages), reminds me of something I had thought of saying something about here after the second-last concert B. and I went to before COVID, namely Anna McGarrigle's noting that the CNE grounds in Toronto, on which she and the whole McGarrigle/Wainwright crew were playing, are on the site of some French fort. It struck me that that used to be, not very long ago, a kind of characteristic lefty move in Canada (and especially for anglo Quebeckers), to admonish the anglos for their obliviousness to the historical French presence--but nowadays it comes across as indigenous-erasing arch-colonialism.
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Currently at Belmont Lake: 15.8. High today: 24.6.
If that ain't the most awesome piece of music I've ever heard that was written by someone I just as easily might never have heard of, on an instrument I have never otherwise heard of, I sure don't know what is.
Well, while I'm here--the fact that Canada now has a governor-general who speaks Inuktitut but not French, and that apparently no one outside of Quebec thinks it's a problem that she doesn't speak French (but plenty of people outside of Quebec seem to think it's a problem if anyone thinks it's a problem that she doesn't speak one of our colonial languages), reminds me of something I had thought of saying something about here after the second-last concert B. and I went to before COVID, namely Anna McGarrigle's noting that the CNE grounds in Toronto, on which she and the whole McGarrigle/Wainwright crew were playing, are on the site of some French fort. It struck me that that used to be, not very long ago, a kind of characteristic lefty move in Canada (and especially for anglo Quebeckers), to admonish the anglos for their obliviousness to the historical French presence--but nowadays it comes across as indigenous-erasing arch-colonialism.
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Currently at Belmont Lake: 15.8. High today: 24.6.
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What is the politics with the Quebecois and Indigenous Ppls, anyway? Is there a single party or a natural coalition that usually arises? Are they usually opposed? Indifferent?
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I guess I'd say the question about the relation between the Quebecois, or at least Quebecois nationalists, and indigenous peoples hasn't really come up like it used to since the last Quebec independence referendum (in 1995) ... when independence was a real possibility, it was a big issue whether huge chunks of indigenous-claimed territory would go with them, at least without however much of a fight. So at that time I'd say they were largely opposed. There was a lot of hostility between some indigenous groups and the province leading up to 1995 ... there was a shootout and standoff at Oka in 1990 (which might have been international news I guess), in which a cop was killed before the army was sent in ... but similar things have happened over the years in other provinces. The big national-unity concern has become Alberta rather than Quebec ... the Quebecois nationalist movement has largely faded away, as a political force ... such that it's now possible to have a G-G who doesn't speak French, which would've been unthinkable until ... well, I'd say it pretty much was unthinkable until it happened.