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Beschreibung
While music lovers from all over the world have tried to recreate the ambience of French cafés by playing music from stars such as Piaf, Trénet and Chevalier, intellectuals, sociologists and policy makers in France have been embroiled in passionate debate about just what constitutes 'real' French music. In the late 1950s and 1960s a wave of Anglo-American rock 'n' roll and pop hit Europe and disrupted French popular music forever. The cherished sounds of the chanson were sidelined, fragmented or merged with pop styles and instrumentation. From this point on, French music and music culture have been splintered into cultural divides - pop culture vs high culture; mass culture vs 'authentic' popular culture; national culture vs Americanization. This book investigates the exciting and innovative segmentation of the French music scene and the debates it has spawned. From an analysis of the chanson as national myth, to pop, rap, techno and the State, this book is the first full-length study to make sense of the complexity behind the history of French popular music and its relation to 'authentic' cultural identity.
While music lovers from all over the world have tried to recreate the ambience of French cafés by playing music from stars such as Piaf, Trénet and Chevalier, intellectuals, sociologists and policy makers in France have been embroiled in passionate debate about just what constitutes 'real' French music. In the late 1950s and 1960s a wave of Anglo-American rock 'n' roll and pop hit Europe and disrupted French popular music forever. The cherished sounds of the chanson were sidelined, fragmented or merged with pop styles and instrumentation. From this point on, French music and music culture have been splintered into cultural divides - pop culture vs high culture; mass culture vs 'authentic' popular culture; national culture vs Americanization. This book investigates the exciting and innovative segmentation of the French music scene and the debates it has spawned. From an analysis of the chanson as national myth, to pop, rap, techno and the State, this book is the first full-length study to make sense of the complexity behind the history of French popular music and its relation to 'authentic' cultural identity.
Über den Autor
David L. Looseley Professor of Contemporary French Culture, University of Leeds
Zusammenfassung
Also available in hardback, 9781859736319 £50.00 (March, 2003)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
French Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
Part I: Defining Authenticity
1 Popular Music before 1958 9
2 The 1960s: Authenticity and Barbarism 21
3 From 1968 to the Present: Authenticity and M,tissage 37
4 Chanson as National Myth: The Authenticity Debate 63
5 Denationalising Authenticity: The Sociological Debate 87
Part II: Politicising Authenticity
6 Music and Politics before 1981 113
7 Music and Politics 1981-93 131
8 Policy and the Music Industry at the End of the
Millennium 151
9 Policy and Its Discontents: The Republican Debate 167
10 Techno and the State: The Cultural Debate 183
Conclusion 203
Chronology 215
Bibliography 223
Index 235
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Musikgeschichte
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781859736364
ISBN-10: 185973636X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Looseley, David
Looseley, D. L.
Hersteller: Berg 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: David Looseley (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2003
Gewicht: 0,412 kg
Artikel-ID: 132028195

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