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MusiCS em Perspectivas traz quinze artigos demonstrativos da diversidade da produção acadêmica dos integrantes do grupo de pesquisa MusiCS - Música, Cultura e Sociedade (UDESC/CNPq), contemplando temas transversais e interdisciplinares, perpassados pelas principais atividades musicais - poética (composição), prática (interpretação e performance) e teoria (musicologia e história) - e pela perspectiva da temporalidade na interação com a cultura e a sociedade.
Only a few events in the history of the Province of Quebec have produced such a reverberating echo as the coming, in 1930, of the R-100 airship. Not only was the media coverage exceptionnal as popular singer Mary Travers (la bolduc) put it, in one of her songes: «tout l'monde parle du R-100» or «Everyone's talking about the R-100». From the regional perspective, the flight of the Montreal South Shore. From the provincial perspective, it was no less important than expo 67 . In terms of technological challenge, however, the interest was worldwide. The catastrophe of the R-101 crash in France had as huge a media fallout in this country as in England. Although relatively short, the life spans of the R-100 and R-101 refelcted an entire decade of innovation int he history of aviation. As a majestic spectacle, a technological breakthrough and a media event, the history of the R-100, that beautiful silver aerial ship, the Titanic of the sky, is all of that and much more... This book relates the success of the first airship, the R-100, and the failure of the second, the R-101.
Le rêve de tout aviateur du monde occidental des années 1920 et 1930 était de réaliser la traversée de l'Atlantique à bord d'un avion, un peu comme le rêve d'un navigateur comme Christophe Colomb était de traverser le même océan en bateau. En 1927, Charles Lindbergh stupéfiait le monde en traversant en solo et sans escale l'Atlantique. À peine six ans plus tard, Italo Balbo commandait la traversée de l'Atlantique de 24 hydravions pilotés par des Italiens de l'Italie fasciste. Cette traversée qui n'apportait pas d'innovation technologique fut néanmoins l'une des plus spectaculaires de l'histoire de l'aviation. Comme les équipages transportaient du courrier, des philatélistes...
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