Autour du Boléro de Ravel. Paroles politiques, mort du sens, débat sur l’âge de la retraite et casserolades

Abstract

The structure of Ravel’s Boléro, based on two parallel and repetitive lines, that of the ostinato and that of two melodic themes, was revisited by Francis Blanche and Pierre Dac in a parodic sketch, Le parti d’en rire. Placing text on each of these two parallel lines, text chanted on the ostinato and sung on the melodic themes, they create a real cacophony, a blurring of meaning. And nolens volens they thus open the way to a critique of political discourse, which has become inaudible, as in certain debates in the French National Assembly, which end in an impotent hullabaloo.