Claudie Marcel-Dubois

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Claudie Marcel-Dubois
Born19 January 1913
Tours, France
Died1 February 1989 (age 76)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)Musicologist, folklorist, pianist, educator
Known forPresident of the Société d'ethnologie française (1978–1987)

Claudie Marcel-Dubois (19 January 1913 – 1 February 1989) was a French ethnomusicologist and pianist. From 1937 until her retirement in 1981, she worked at the Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires (MNATP) in Paris. She was president of the Société d'ethnologie française from 1978 to 1987. She taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Early life and education[edit]

Marcel-Dubois was born in Tours. She studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1926 to 1928, with further studies under Marguerite Long. She studied anthropology and ethnology in the 1930s with Marcel Mauss and Paul Masson-Oursel.[1]

Three white people seated in a barn in 1939; a man in priest's clothing, a farmer at center, and a woman with her head down, writing; a recording device is propped on an overturned wheelbarrow in front of the group.
In this 1939 photograph, Claudie Marcel-Debois is at the right, head down, writing, with L'Abbé François Falc'hun on the left, and Yves Gouriou at the center.

Career[edit]

Marcel-Dubois worked with musicologists André Schaeffner and Curt Sachs[2] at the Musée de l'Homme beginning in 1934. She joined the staff at the Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires (MNATP) when it opened in 1937, and retired from the museum in 1981, as head of the ethnomusicology department and sound library. Marie-Marguerite Pichonnet-Andral [fr] was her assistant and eventually her successor at MNATP.[1]

Marcel-Dubois was president of the Société d'ethnologie française from 1978 to 1987. She taught ethnomusicology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.[1] She served on the radio commission of the International Folk Music Council.[3] She and Andral worked with Alan Lomax to compile a collection of French folk music recordings, published in 1954 by the Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music.[4] She also worked with Ralph Rinzler on collecting Francophone folk songs in Louisiana.[5]

Publications[edit]

Marcel-Dubois was the author of several books. Her articles appeared in scholarly journals including Revue des arts asiatiques,

  • "A propos de 'Scènes de musique et de danse'" (1936)[6]
  • "Notes sur les instruments de musique figurés dans l'art plastique de l'Inde ancienne" (1937)[7]
  • Les instruments de musique de l’Inde ancienne (1941)
  • La Bresse (1941, a collection of French folk songs, compiled with François Agostini and Pierre d'Anjou)[8]
  • Instruments de musique populaires d’Europe (1946)
  • "Vues Sommaires sur les Recherches Actuelles et le Maintien de la Tradition Musicale Populaire Francaise" (1949)[9]
  • Chants de compagnonnage (1951, with R. Lecottè)
  • "'En paradis, il y a-t-un arbre'" (1953)[10]
  • Musique populaire vocale de l’île de Batz (1954, with M.-M. Andral)
  • "Extensions du domaine d’observations directes en ethnographie musicale française" (1954)
  • "Le toulouhou des Pyrénées centrales" (1956)
  • "La 'Saint-Marcel' de Barjols" (1957)[11]
  • "Ethnomusicologie de la France 1945–1959" (1960)[12]
  • "Instruments de musique du cirque" (1960)[13]
  • "Curt Sachs" (1960)[14]
  • "Principes essentiels de l’enquête ethnomusicologie: quelques applications françaises" (1961)[15]
  • "Le tambour bourdonnant" (1964)[16]
  • "Marguerite d'Harcourt" (1965)[17]
  • "Le tempo dans les musiques de tradition orale" (1965)[18]
  • "Le tambour-bourdon: son signal et sa tradition" (1966)[19]
  • "The Objectives of Music and Musical Instrument Collections in a National Ethnological Museum" (1969)
  • "Fêtes villageoises et vacarmes cérémoniels" (1972)
  • "Musique et phénomènes paramusicaux" (1975, with M. Pichonnet-Andral)[20]
  • "La paramusique dans le charivari français contemporain" (1981)[21]
  • "Musiques de rites saisonniers en Europe traditionnelle" (1982)
  • "Le triangle et ses représentations comme signe social et culturel" (1987)[22]

Personal life[edit]

Marcel-Dubois died in 1989, at the age of 76, in Suresnes, Paris.[23][24]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Spieth-Weissenbacher, Christiane (2001). Marcel-Dubois, Claudie. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.17714. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  2. ^ Sturman, Janet (2019-02-26). The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. SAGE Publications. p. 957. ISBN 978-1-4833-1774-8.
  3. ^ Dahmen, H. J.; Reischek, Andreas; Klusen, Ernst; Brenta, G.; Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1956). "Report of the Radio Commission". Journal of the International Folk Music Council. 8: 51–56. doi:10.1017/S0950792200022365. ISSN 0950-7922. JSTOR 834751.
  4. ^ Alan Lomax; Claudie Marcel-Dubois; Maguy Andral (1954), France, Internet Archive, Columbia Masterworks, retrieved 2024-03-17
  5. ^ Peknik, Patricia (2018-09-10). French Louisiana Music and Its Patrons: The Popularization and Transformation of a Regional Sound. Springer. p. 200. ISBN 978-3-319-97424-8.
  6. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1936). "A propos de "Scènes de musique et de danse"". Revue des arts asiatiques. 10 (2): 110–112. ISSN 0995-7510. JSTOR 43475615.
  7. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1937). "Notes sur les instruments de musique figurés dans l'art plastique de l'Inde ancienne". Revue des arts asiatiques. 11 (1): 36–49. ISSN 0995-7510. JSTOR 43475630.
  8. ^ d'Anjou, Pierre; Agostini, François; Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1941). La Bresse (Folklore). Paris: Henri Lemoine – via Internet Archive.
  9. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (January 1949). "Vues Sommaires sur les Recherches Actuelles et le Maintien de la Tradition Musicale Populaire Francaise". Journal of the International Folk Music Council. 1: 51–52. doi:10.2307/835937. ISSN 0950-7922. JSTOR 835937.
  10. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1953). "" En Paradis, Il Y a-T-Un Arbre "". Arts et Traditions Populaires. 1 (1): 70–75. ISSN 0571-2211. JSTOR 41002315.
  11. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1957). "La « Saint-Marcel » De Barjols". Arts et Traditions Populaires. 5 (1): 3–45. ISSN 0571-2211. JSTOR 41002576.
  12. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1960). "Ethnomusicologie de la France 1945-1959". Acta Musicologica. 32 (2/3): 113–121. doi:10.2307/931662. ISSN 0001-6241. JSTOR 931662.
  13. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1960). "Instruments De Musique Du Cirque". Arts et Traditions Populaires. 8: 89–109. ISSN 0571-2211. JSTOR 41003081.
  14. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (January 1960). "Curt Sachs". Journal of the International Folk Music Council. 12: 88–89. doi:10.1017/S0950792200018937. ISSN 0950-7922.
  15. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (January 1961). "Principes Essentiels de l'Enquête Ethnomusicologique: Quelques Applications Françaises". Journal of the International Folk Music Council. 13: 13–18. doi:10.2307/835278. ISSN 0950-7922. JSTOR 835278.
  16. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1964). "Le Tambour Bourdonnant". Journal of the International Folk Music Council. 16: 90–91. doi:10.2307/835089. ISSN 0950-7922. JSTOR 835089.
  17. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1965). "Marguerite d'Harcourt". Journal of the International Folk Music Council. 17 (Part1): 12–13. doi:10.1017/S0950792200004889. ISSN 0950-7922.
  18. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1965). "Le Tempo dans les Musiques de tradition Orale". Fontes Artis Musicae. 12 (2/3): 204–206. ISSN 0015-6191. JSTOR 23504714.
  19. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (1966). "Le Tambour-Bourdon: Son Signal Et Sa Tradition". Arts et Traditions Populaires. 14 (1/2): 3–16. ISSN 0571-2211. JSTOR 41001332.
  20. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie, and Marie-Marguerite Pichonnet-Andral. Musique et phénomènes paramusicaux. Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS, 1975.
  21. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (2017-09-25), "La paramusique dans le charivari français contemporain", Le charivari (in French), De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 45–54, doi:10.1515/9783110823097-005, ISBN 978-3-11-082309-7, retrieved 2024-03-17
  22. ^ Marcel-Dubois, Claudie (2018-05-09). "Le triangle et ses représentations comme signe social et culturel". Transposition. Musique et Sciences Sociales (in French) (Hors-série 1). doi:10.4000/transposition.1759. ISSN 2110-6134.
  23. ^ Cheyronnaud, Jacques. Une vie consacrée à l’ethnomusicologie. Claudie Marcel-Dubois (1913-1989). No. 3. Infolio Editeur/Ateliers d’ethnomusicologie, 1990.
  24. ^ Brandily, Monique (1989). "Claudie Marcel-Dubois (1913-1989)". Revue de Musicologie. 75 (2): 317–319. ISSN 0035-1601. JSTOR 928905.
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