L'authenticité musicienne à l'épreuve de la formation et de l'expérience

Abstract

The seemingly homogeneous values of the musicians'world actually conceal strong differences according to how individuals have developed their own paths. Training and work experiences impact on their conceptions of artistic authenticity. This paper examines how the singular regime is a value common to the group's ethos and how this sense covers diverse if not antagonistic conceptions or realities in its different sub-sections. A typology differentiating two sub-groups of musicians emerged from the field work based on comprehensive interviews. For self- made musicians, interpreters it is both individual stances and their effects on the development of their own paths which fits them into a singular regime. For institutional teacher musicians, the corporatist model characteristic of the specialist music teacher in France generates tension between corps identity (communal regime) and artist identity (singular regime). Excellence and the group's elitism are no longer based on the marginality proper to the singular regime but on a gradual move towards a conformity proper to the communal regime. © De Boeck Université.