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SUJET 1 Thématique : « Expression et construction de soi » Partie 1 : Synthèse du dossier, en anglais (16 points) Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B et C et répondez en anglais à la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Paying
SUJET 1 Thématique : « Expression et construction de soi » Partie 1 : Synthèse du dossier, en anglais (16 points) Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B et C et répondez en anglais à la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Paying particular attention to the characteristics of the three documents, show how they interact to highlight the power of music and singing. Partie 2 : Traduction, en français (4 points) Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document C (lignes 14 à 19) : When Bessie sings in these clubs with the audience literally spellbound, captivated, totally enthralled, she is not really paying them any attention. She is deep, deep inside herself in the place where the blues comes from. She has shut out the clapping and the stomping and the shouting. It is quiet in the 81 Club, people’s faces are like stills. They flash before her sometimes in the middle of a song. Like something she might see travelling on a train very fast; seen for an instant then gone. 25-LLCERANJA1 Page 2/9 Document A Photo by Gjon MILI, Billie Holiday performing at Café Society1, 1939 1 Billie Holiday (1915-1959) was an American jazz and blues singer. Café Society was NYC’s first integrated club. 25-LLCERANJA1 Page 3/9 Document B Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro1 play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night 5 By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway. . . . He did a lazy sway. . . . To the tune o’ those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key 10 He made that poor piano moan with melody. O Blues! Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool. Sweet Blues! 15 Coming from a black man’s soul. O Blues! In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan— “Ain’t got nobody in all this world, 20 Ain’t got nobody but ma self. I’s gwine to quit ma frownin’ And put ma troubles on the shelf.” Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor. He played a few chords then he sang some more— 25 “I got the Weary Blues And I can’t