M1 LEA Brexit, and media

You will find here the last part of the classes on Understanding Brexit, in Mp3

Just click here

And here is the first class on the UK media today

Just click here

Historiography seminar 3

You can find here the recordings of the third class.

Part one is here and

Part two is here


All the slides we saw in class are here.


More exploration on what cultural history is can be found in this talk and powerpoint in French:
click here and click through


keywords : podcast, historiography, first world war, united kingdom

Brexit- an amusing but serious summary

Here  http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2018/10/10/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-final-weeks-of-brexit

Encore sur vos traductions

New rule. You can either
- send me your work before Wednesday night OR
- send me your work Thursday or Friday IF you send me an email Wednesday to tell me that your work is coming a little later.

Rooms this week

M1 LEA A102 Blondel
Theme A202 Lettres
Historiography L102

Home rule crisis

And this video directly about the Home Rule crisis in Edwardian Britain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLHFdX9x2Fw&t=20s

Video 19th century British politics

This documentary is not specifically about Home Rule, but gives a good idea of the atmosphere and methods of 19th century politics in the UK, even if it forgets some important elements ( for example the mass popular movements involved in winning the extension of democracy in 1867).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZwBIY-o_cQ&t=11s

Home Rule

Coming out next week, this indispensable book

Thème agrégation

I think I made a mistake and said that you can send me your work any time. I shouldn’t have said this! So as to be able to plan my week and estimate the time I need for marking, I need your work one week before. Thank you!

New book just out

https://www.routledge.com/Popular-Song-in-the-First-World-War-An-International-Perspective/Mullen/p/book/9781138478466

What did popular song mean to people across the world during the First World War? For the first time, song repertoires and musical industries from countries on both sides in the Great War as well as from neutral countries are analysed in one exciting volume. Experts from around the world, and with very different approaches, bring to life the entertainment of a century ago, to show the role it played in the lives of our ancestors. The reader will meet the penniless lyricist, the theatre chain owner, the cross-dressing singer, fado composer, stage Scotsman or rhyming soldier, whether they come from Serbia, Britain, the USA, Germany, France, Portugal or elsewhere, in this fascinating exploration of showbiz before the generalization of the gramophone. Singing was a vector for patriotic support for the war, and sometimes for anti-war activism, but it was much more than that, and expressed and constructed debates, anxieties, social identities and changes in gender roles. This work, accompanied by many links to online recordings, will allow the reader to glimpse the complex role of popular song in people’s lives in a period of total war.

Introduction: Beyond the Question of Morale: Popular Music in the First World War John Mullen What Voices Can be Heard in Wartime Popular Song? Chapter I: What voices can be heard in British music hall Songs of the First World War? John Mullen Chapter II: French popular song at the front during the Great War Eric Sauda Chapter III: German soldier songs in the First World War and beyond André Rottgeri Chapter IV: The music of war resistance in Britain, 1914-1918 Clive Barrett Chapter V: In search of the French anti-war song, the Chanson de Craonne Guy Marival Gender, Commercial Song and War Chapter VI Couples in French popular song and the challenges of the Great War Anne Simon Chapter VII Masculinity, war and song in America 1917-1918 Christina Gier Chapter VIII From tulips and curls to donuts and jazz: the representation of women in American popular and soldier songs during the First World War Amy Wells Chapter IX Staging the nation: Claire Waldoff and Berlin cabaret before and during the Great War Melanie Schiller The Expression of National and Social Identities Chapter X ‘We shall get there in time’: contemporary responses to the First World War by New Zealand songwriters Chris Bourke Chapter XI: Irish Songs of World War I Erick Falc’her-Poyroux Chapter XII: Popular music and eroticism: the Spanish Cuplé during the years of the First World War Lidia López. Chapter XIII: A business without an industry: the Portuguese music business in turbulent times Pedro Félix Chapter XIV: Early Serbian popular songs outside of Serbia during the Great War Dragan Aleksić, Maja Vasiljević, Nataša Simeunović Bajić

Historiography seminar 2

Here are recordings of class two, which may be helpful.

part one 

and part two

And here you will find a historian speaking on how the US got involved in the war.

Understanding Brexit podcast 2 LEA M1

Here is the second week's class

part one

and

part two

and here is the powerpoint.

Key words: Brexit, powerpoint, lecture

The grammar of "condemned to"

In our agrégation translation class the question came up of the acceptability of different grammatical structures after "condemned".

One would normally expect  "condemned to die" "condemned to remain a second-rate author".
The form "condemned to remaining" seemed very strange to me, despite the presence of many structures with " condemned to" followed by a noun, which is usually a sign that an ING form would be possible. "Condemned to death" "condemned to prison".

The way to be sure about such questions is to search on the British national corpus, a huge collection of British English sentences from books, magazines and newspapers. There is a search website here : https://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

If you search for "condemned to" on this page, you can see what the situation is.

Epreuve de linguistique agrégation interne

Students preparing the agrégation interne: someone asked me what were the best books to start with to prepare the linguistics test. I had no idea, but my colleague and linguistician Mme Goudet said that these two books were a good place to start.

 

Of course, those students preparing the agrégation interne who are free on Tuesday mornings should attend Mme Goudet's class for the externes.

What was I doing in Germany

I was invited to Germany to give a lecture (in English) to the annual conference of the Society for research in Music, on my research on First World War British popular song. You can find it here in MP3: it will be of interest to students of British history.

https://www.academia.edu/37507088/_MP3_and_abstract_The_Uses_of_British_Wartime_Song_1914-1918

key words: podcast, United Kingdom, Popular Song, First World War

LEA M1 Understanding Brexit podcast

If you need to listen to the class again sometime before the exam, or if a friend was absent at the first class, you will find the classes here in MP3.

 Here is the first part

And here is the second part


Keywords: Brexit, podcast, university of Rouen, lecture

Les salles de la semaine

Master LEA 1 Current affairs in the English-speaking world A102 Blondel.
Thème agrégation/M2 A202 UFR Lettres
Séminaire historiographie T011

Home rule video again

You first need to become really at ease with the timeline, the main characters, the main issues. This documentary about Parnell is useful. As with most TV documentaries, it is rather partisan, but many important issues, organizations and people are presented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vosAeo3eyE

M1 LEA Understanding Brexit 1

We have ten classes: the tenth one is an exam, and there will also be a compulsory marked homework. We will be going through a series of subjects - probably around one every three weeks or so.

The powerpoint I am using in class will later be available here on thi sblog (when I have finished it).

Here is the short video we saw in class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLrzMzD_yvw 

And here is an extract from an interview with the leader of the Labour Party this week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-G2ELIIl9I

Historiographie: séminaire WW1

Vous pouvez lire ce compte-rendu de livre, en français. "In Defence of History".

http://quaderna.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/CR-Evans-MULLEN.pdf

Voici   une collection de chansons de la Première Guerre, avec une présentation que j'ai écrite  pour des lycéens:
http://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/civilisation/domaine-britannique/les-tubes-de-la-grande-guerre-en-angleterre-br-partie-1-

This is a lecture by one of the best military historians. Here he talks about only one day: the day of the assassination which was the spark which set off the terrible war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6snYQFcyiyg&t=355s