[Thesis defense] 10/12/2024 - Odile DELMAS: "CHANSONS POPULAIRES DE LA PROVENCE DE DAMASE ARBAUD, UN COLLECTAGE DANS L'EUROPE DES NATIONALITES" (UPR ICTT)

Odile DELMAS will defend her thesis on 10 December 2024 on the subject of "Chansons populaires de la Provence de Damase Arbaud, un collectage dans l'Europe des nationalités".

Laboratory

UPR 4277 ICTT - Cultural Identity, Texts and Theatricality Laboratory

Composition of the jury

Ms FLORENCE BISTAGNE	Avignon University	Thesis supervisor
Ms Dominique VERDONI	University of Corsica	Rapporteur
Ms Claire PLACIAL	University of Lorraine	Rapporteur
Mr Erik PESENTI ROSSI	University of Strasbourg	Examiner
Mr Bernard URBANI	Avignon University	Thesis co-director
Frédéric GIMELLO	Avignon University	Examiner

Summary

Damase Arbaud's Chants populaires de la Provence were part of a nationwide song-collecting effort instigated by Louis Napoléon Bonaparte. The critical apparatus in the notes and prefaces to the two volumes, published in 1862 and 1864, refers to numerous collectors in France and other parts of Europe. These collectors, linked to each other by letter or directly, were part of the idea of a Europe of nationalities at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. The idea was to create nation-states. The collectors mentioned in the Chants populaires de la Provence, who were often socialists, Bonapartists or Freemasons, or even members of all three, were part of this Europe of nationalities. Those responsible for folk songs in France aimed to consolidate the French nation-state that had existed since 1789. The collectors in other parts of Europe were political fighters for the creation of nation-states.

Keywords SONGS, PROVENCE, ARAUD, COLLECTION, EUROPE, NATIONALITIES