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Intermelodicity in the Caribbean Musical Repertoire

L’intermélodicité dans le répertoire musical caribéen

Archipélies N° 20 – Décembre 2025

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Published on Thursday, February 27, 2025

Abstract

This issue of Archipélies offers a multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary approach to the process of artistic creation, which often involves, consciously or unconsciously, borrowing, reworking, imitating, appropriating and re-appropriating. Where many will use plagiarism, others will see original works as a constant source of creative renewal. This is where the notion of intermixing comes in. If in literature we speak of intertextuality, in musicology we should use the term intermelodicity.

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Abstract

This issue offers a multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary approach to the process of artistic creation, which often involves, consciously or unconsciously, borrowing, reworking, imitating, appropriating and re-appropriating. Where many will use plagiarism, others will see original works as a constant source of creative renewal. This is where the notion of intermixing comes in. If in literature we speak of intertextuality, in musicology we should use the term intermelodicity. What are we to think of intermelodicity today? Can we talk about inter-mixing in a work of art? Cinematographic? Literary works? If so, what characterizes them? Does intermixing help to preserve the collective memory and heritage of a people? Is it useful to a society? How do listeners and viewers perceive new works? How do they react to the unknown/known, the old/new? Has the listener-spectator’s behavior changed over time, to the point of evolving into a consumer-actor?

Furthermore, analyzing this mode of creation and this imitative process as a way of thinking leads us to rethink the creative act itself, particularly now with the ethical issues surrounding the use of AI in music or sound correction software such as auto-tune. Love them or hate them, these new technologies are flooding the musical sphere today. What are their positive contributions to artistic creation? How can they be turned into a creative asset? Faced with these developments, the profession of a songwriter is changing. How can we support artists in their professional development?

The case of songs from the Caribbean’s naughty, bawdy and obscene repertoire can provide valuable support for analysis and reflection

Depending on the discipline, the following questions may serve as a starting point:

Anthropology of music

  • Anthropology of musical gesture

  • Cognitive anthropology of musical composition

  • Intermelodicity in musical anthropology

  • Intermelodicity and the listener-spectator

  • Intermelodicity and collective memory and heritage

Musicology

  • Intermelodicity and imitative processes

  • Setting a literary, pictorial or cinematographic work to music

  • Musical interaction in non-musical environments

  • Semantics of music in the paratexts of composition and staging

  • Source and transpositive works: from original to original

Artificial intelligence

  • Instrument of mutation in artistic creation

  • Artificial intelligence and intermixing

  • Intermelodicity and social networks

  • AI as a medium for artistic creation

  • AI and the plurality of naughty, bawdy, obscene and pornographic songs

  • Intermelodicity and ethics

Linguistics and semiotics

  • Semiotics: signs of language and music (syntax, semantics, pragmatics) / differences and similarities

  • Specific features of sung texts and their ‘singability

  • Function of prosodic elements of language in musical settings

  • Phonation and hearing of speech and song

  • Intermediate interaction of language and music (including voice) in different musical, cinematographic and literary genres

Literature and cultural studies

  • Musical discourse in literary texts, especially in the Caribbean

  • Attempts at literary ‘translations’ of musical pieces

  • Intermedia interactions between music and literature

Calendar

  • March 11, 2025: submission of abstracts and selection by the coordinator

  • September 16, 2025: feedback from reviewers and transmission of corrections to authors

  • November 11, 2025: authors send finalized versions of their articles

  • November/December 2025: editorial work, final proofreading by authors and issue coordinator

  • December 16, 2025: issue published

Issue coordinator

Esther Eloidin, Docteur en musicologie et anthropologie musicale – Membre d’ADECam, équipe interne du CRILLASH, Laboratoire des Antilles-Guyane

Article submission

Please follow the instructions to authors before submitting your contributions to str.eloidin@gmail.com.

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Date(s)

  • Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Keywords

  • musique, anthropologie musicale, musicologie, intelligence artificielle, linguistique, sémiotique, composition musicale, mémoire

Contact(s)

  • Esther Eloidin
    courriel : str [dot] eloidin [at] gmail [dot] com

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Information source

  • Hélène Wachtel
    courriel : helene [dot] wachtel [at] univ-antilles [dot] fr

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Esther Eloidin, « Intermelodicity in the Caribbean Musical Repertoire », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Thursday, February 27, 2025, https://doi.org/10.58079/13dyb

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