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Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno - Culture, Identity and Society (Paperback)
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Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno - Culture, Identity and Society (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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In France during the 1960s and 1970s, popular music became a key
component of socio-cultural modernisation as the music/record
industry became increasingly important in both economic and
cultural terms in response to demographic changes and the rise of
the modern media. As France began questioning traditional ways of
understanding politics and culture before and after May 1968, music
as popular culture became an integral part of burgeoning media
activity. Press, radio and television developed free from de
Gaulle's state domination of information, and political activism
shifted its concerns to the use of regional languages and regional
cultures, including the safeguard of traditional popular music
against the centralising tendencies of the Republican state. The
cultural and political significance of French music was again
revealed in the 1990s, as French-language music became a highly
visible example of France's quest to maintain her cultural
'exceptionalism' in the face of the perceived globalising hegemony
of English and US business and cultural imperialism. Laws were
passed instituting minimum quotas of French-language music. The
1980s and 1990s witnessed developing issues raised by new
technologies, as compact discs, the minitel telematics system, the
internet and other innovations in radio and television broadcasting
posed new challenges to musicians and the music industry. These
trends and developments are the subject of this volume of essays by
leading scholars across a range of disciplines including French
studies, musicology, cultural and media studies and film studies.
It constitutes the first attempt to provide a complete and
up-to-date overview of the place of popular music in modern France
and the reception of French popular music abroad.
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