ABSTRACT
According to Régis Debray (1940), mediology 1 consists in studying the connection between a message’s content and its transit paths (the medium). Medium and message: These two words were first popularized by Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), a Canadian sociologist and theorist in communications. He was the first to explicitly focus his research on a relationship that had not been highlighted or discussed before.
Béla Bartók (1881–1945) and Charles Chaplin (1889–1977) were two of the most original creators of the twentieth century. Both of them were faced with the mediological mutations of their time: Bartók as an ethno-musicologist, a pianist and a composer, and Chaplin as a circus performer (mime, acrobat) and as a film actor and director. The second 68part of this study aims to grasp the significant and exemplary aspects of each of their approaches.
