Description
Made in France: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary French popular music. The volume consists of essays by scholars of French popular music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in France. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in France, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: The Mutations of French Popular Music During the "Trente Glorieuses"; Politicising Popular Music; Assimilation, Appropriation, French Specificity; and From Digital Stakes to Cultural Heritage: French Contemporary Topics.
Contributors:
Christian Béthune
Juliette Dalbavie
Gérôme Guibert
Fabien Hein
Olivier Julien
Marc Kaiser
Barbara Lebrun
David Looseley
Stéphanie Molinero
Anne Petiau
Cécile Prévost-Thomas
Vincent Rouzé
Catherine Rudent
Matthieu Saladin
Jedediah Sklower
Raphaël Suire
Florence Tamagne
Table of Contents
Introduction: What’s the French Touch in French Popular Music? A sociohistorical introduction to chanson and other French repertoires (Gérôme Guibert)
Part I: Zeitgeist. The mutations of French popular music during the "30 glorieuses"
Preamble I: Introduction (Gérôme Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
1. Yéyé covers or the keynote to a societal adaptation (Matthieu Saladin)
2. Juvenile delinquency, social unrest and national anxiety French debates and controversies over rock’n’roll in the 1960’s and 1970’s (Florence Tamagne)
3. "Lost song": Serge Gainsbourg and the transformation of French popular music (Olivier Julien)
4. The record industry in the 1960-1970s: The forgotten story of French popular music (Marc Kaiser)
Part II: Politicizing popular music
Preamble II (Gérôme Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
5. Aural wars: Race, class, politics and the dilemmas of free jazzmen in sixties France (Jedediah Sklower)
6. Marche ou crève: The band Trust and the singular case of the birth of French heavy metal (Gérôme Guibert)
7. Rock, race and the republic: Musical identities in post-colonial France (Barbara Lebrun)
Part III: Assimilation, appropriation, French specificity
Preamble III (Gérôme Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
8. Chanson française: Between musical realities and social representations (Cécile Prévost-Thomas)
9. Chanson française: A genre without musical identity (Catherine Rudent)
10. Rap audiences in France: The diversification and heterogenization of the appeal of rap music (Stéphanie Molinero)
11. Towards a greater appreciation of the poetry of French rap (Christian Béthune)
12. Punk rock entrepreneurship in France (Fabien Hein)
Part IV: From digital stakes to cultural heritage: French contemporary topics
Preamble IV (Gérôme Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
13. Incorporating chanson into heritage, a shared process between museums and collective memory: the case study of George Brassens in Sète (Juliette Dalbavie)
14. Tecktonick and danses électro: subculture, media processes and web 2.0 (Anne Petiau)
15. My dealer is a rock-star: Digital piracy and social networks in the context of the French three-strikes law (HADOPI) (Raphaël Suire and Sylvain Dejean)
16. At the intersections of popular music: From background music to localized alternative musical experiences (Vincent Rouzé)
Coda: Rethinking the popular? Some reflections on popular music in France and Britain (David Looseley)
Afterword: We freed ourselves from the band format: A Conversation with Nicolas Godin (Air - French band) (Gérôme Guibert)
A selected bibliography on French popular music
Index
