Seating is very limited. Please contact Danielle Marx-Scouras
(marx-scouras.1@osu.edu) if you wish to attend.
Our fifth video-concert with the feminist duo Les Femmouzes T is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, the French Program at OSU-Newark, the Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Performance as Pedagogy Working Group. This event is linked to French 5403: Minor Art from Gainsbourg to Stromae.
After a ten-year hiatus in which Françoise Chapuis and Rita Macedo worked on individual projects, these two musical artists are back together and working on a new album that will be recorded this fall and followed by a tour in 2019. We shall thus have the unique opportunity to hear/see/discuss a work in progress and not merely a finished project. Françoise and Rita will perform both new songs as well as music from their three previous albums, in French, Occitan, and Portuguese. Their songs are about the revolutionary feminist Olympe de Gouges, the medieval trobairitz (female troubadours), love and politics, women’s and LGBT rights, and, of course, Toulouse as a counter capital, promoting a unique vision of France and “French” music that cannot be reduced to a centralist, myopic one. By questioning language, music, sexuality, memory, and space, they take down both French “chanson’” and “world” music.
“Ces deux filles brisent le consensus musical, l’hégémonie des goûts.” (Véronique Mortaigne, Le Monde)
“Ne règnent dans ce royaume de sonorités épicées que des sentiments de tolérance et de liberté.” (Ludovic Perrin, Libération)
