Résumés
Abstract
Lee Breuer’s Gospel at Colonus is an attempt to achieve a synthesis between an ancient Greek tragedy and the black Pentecostal church service, in addition to offering a mixed marriage between white and black cultural idioms. Regarding this experiment, the question is not, I believe, reducible to Breuer’s intention so much as the actual result of the work itself. Indeed, in experimenting with culturally established styles of expression, results depend on the nature of their unprecedented interaction. Therefore, hermeneutic inquiry is rather problematic and perhaps only a learned intuition is possible as a starting point. Nonetheless, I conjecture that rendering the narrative of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus through the prism of Gospel music bestows an additional metaphoric dimension on the basic metaphor embodied in the original play-script. This study aims at elucidating the nature of these metaphoric dimensions, specifically on the level of sound.
Keywords:
- Metaphor,
- Sophocle,
- Lee Breuer,
- Gospel Music
Résumé
L’adaptation faite par Lee Breuer de l’Oedipe à Colone de Sophocle, intitulée Gospel at Colonus (Évangile à Colone), est à la fois une tentative de synthèse entre la tragédie grecque antique et le service religieux pentecôtiste, et un mariage d’expressions culturelles propres à l’Europe de race blanche et à l’Amérique afro-américaine. Face à cette expérimentation, il ne s’agit pas de s’interroger sur les intentions de Breuer, mais plutôt d’étudier ce qui en résulte. Or, en manipulant des styles d’expression déjà reconnus, ce résultat tient à la nature inédite de la fusion proposée. Rejetant une approche herméneutique qui, dans les circonstances, nous paraît problématique, nous prendrons pour point de départ une sorte d’intuitionnisme informé. Notre hypothèse est que le traitement de la tragédie de Sophocle par le biais de la musique “gospel” lui accorde une dimension métaphorique supplémentaire qui s’additionne à la métaphore du texte d’origine. Notre étude vise à élucider le jeu de ces métaphores en considérant la dimension sonore introduite par l’adaptation de Breuer.
Mots-clés :
- Métaphore,
- Sophocle,
- Lee Breuer,
- musique gospel
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