Study Day 5 > L’industrie musicale, une industrie culturelle comme les autres ?
Does the music industry operate according to the same principles as other cultural industries? What do its history, successive crises, and blind spots reveal about cultural policy?
This fifth study day will bring together researchers and music industry professionals to explore whether—and how—the music industry stands apart from other cultural industries, across time and place. Presentations will examine 150 years of French recording industry history in comparison with Quebec; countercultural discourses surrounding the “golden age” of Quebec song; the state of women’s inclusion in Canada’s Francophone music industry, drawing on a report produced in collaboration with the Fondation Musicaction; and the figure of the artist-entrepreneur as a lens through which to examine cultural policy in the digital age.
Program
9 a.m. to 10 a.m. – D’une crise à une autre : l’industrie musicale en France de 1850 à 2000
With Marc Kaiser (Paris 8)
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. – Réinventer le son du Québec : discours synchroniques de la marge à propos de «l’âge d’or» de la chanson au Québec (1971-1976)
With Pierre Lavoie (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
11 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. – Break
11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – Où en sommes-nous en matière d’inclusion des femmes dans l’industrie musicale canadienne francophone ?
With Joelle Bissonnette (UQAM)
12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – Lunch
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. – Title to be confirmed
With Simon Claus (ADISQ)
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – L’artiste-entrepreneur comme révélateur : l’industrie musicale québécoise, laboratoire pour repenser les politiques culturelles numériques
With Catalina Briceno (UQAM)
4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Break
4:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. – Grand témoin
With Alain Simard
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This event is part of the Crises et transformations de l’écosystème musical québécois study-day series, taking place at several Montréal universities from September to December 2026, with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s (SSHRC) Connection Grants.
