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Popular Music in Contemporary France - Authenticity, Politics, Debate (Hardcover, New)
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Popular Music in Contemporary France - Authenticity, Politics, Debate (Hardcover, New)
Series: Berg French Studies Series
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While music lovers from all over the world have tried to recreate
the ambience of French cafes by playing music from stars such as
Piaf, Trenet 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.
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