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This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as
France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a
European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition. This study
provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting,
cultural, social, economic and political significance of the Tour
within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative
investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means,
now and in the past, to competitors, to France, to the French
public, to the cultural history of sport, and the sport of cycling
itself.
This book analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as
France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a
European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition. This study
provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting,
cultural, social, economic and political significance of the Tour
within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative
investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means,
now and in the past, to competitors, to France, to the French
public, to the cultural history of sport, and the sport of cycling
itself.
This book examines France's hosting of the soccer World Cup, held
in ten cities in summer 1998. It covers the major socio-economic,
political, cultural and sporting dimensions of this global sports
event, including bidding for and organizing the Finals, the
improvement of sporting and transport infrastructures, marketing,
merchandzing and media coverage, policing and security during the
month-long competition and building a national team. The analysis
of France 98 is set within the sporting context of the recent
history and organization of French football (the links between
football, money and politics; the sporting public) and more broadly
within the French tradition of using major cultural and sporting
events to focus world attention of France as a leader in the
international community. The book concludes with an evocation of
the day-to-day impact of four weeks of sporting festivities, and
the lessons to be drawn concerning sport and national identity in
an era of increasing economic, political, cultural and sporting
globalization.
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.
The term 'Popular Music' has traditionally denoted different things
in France and Britain. In France, the very concept of 'popular'
music has been fiercely debated and contested, whereas in Britain
and more largely throughout what the French describe as the
'Anglo-saxon' world 'popular music' has been more readily accepted
as a description of what people do as leisure or consume as part of
the music industry, and as something that academics are
legitimately entitled to study. French researchers have for some
decades been keenly interested in reading British and American
studies of popular culture and popular music and have often
imported key concepts and methodologies into their own work on
French music, but apart from the widespread use of elements of
'French theory' in British and American research, the 'Anglo-saxon'
world has remained largely ignorant of particular traditions of the
study of popular music in France and specific theoretical debates
or organizational principles of the making and consuming of French
musics. French, British and American research into popular music
has thus coexisted - with considerable cross-fertilization - for
many years, but the barriers of language and different academic
traditions have made it hard for French and anglophone researchers
to fully appreciate the ways in which popular music has developed
in their respective countries and the perspectives on its study
adopted by their colleagues. This volume provides a comparative and
contrastive perspective on popular music and its study in France
and the UK.
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.
The term 'Popular Music' has traditionally denoted different things
in France and Britain. In France, the very concept of 'popular'
music has been fiercely debated and contested, whereas in Britain
and more largely throughout what the French describe as the
'Anglo-saxon' world 'popular music' has been more readily accepted
as a description of what people do as leisure or consume as part of
the music industry, and as something that academics are
legitimately entitled to study. French researchers have for some
decades been keenly interested in reading British and American
studies of popular culture and popular music and have often
imported key concepts and methodologies into their own work on
French music, but apart from the widespread use of elements of
'French theory' in British and American research, the 'Anglo-saxon'
world has remained largely ignorant of particular traditions of the
study of popular music in France and specific theoretical debates
or organizational principles of the making and consuming of French
musics. French, British and American research into popular music
has thus coexisted - with considerable cross-fertilization - for
many years, but the barriers of language and different academic
traditions have made it hard for French and anglophone researchers
to fully appreciate the ways in which popular music has developed
in their respective countries and the perspectives on its study
adopted by their colleagues. This volume provides a comparative and
contrastive perspective on popular music and its study in France
and the UK.
The contributions here cover the major socio-economic, political,
cultural and sporting dimensions of the 1998 World Cup. It is set
within the sporting context of the history and organization of
French football and the French tradition of using major sporting
events to focus world attention.
French Cycling: a Social and Cultural History aims to provide a
balanced and detailed analytical survey of the complex leisure
activity, sport, and industry that is cycling in France.
Identifying key events, practices, stakeholders and institutions in
the history of French cycling, the volume presents an
interdisciplinary analysis of how cycling has been significant in
French society and culture since the late Nineteenth century.
Cycling as Leisure is considered through reference to the adoption
of the bicycle as an instrument of tourism and emancipation by
women in the 1880s, for example, or by study of the development in
the 1990s of long-distance tourist cycle routes. Cycling as Sport
and its attendant dimensions of amateurism/professionalism,
national identity, the body and doping, and other issues is
investigated through study of the history of the Tour de France,
the track-racing organised at the Velodrome d'hiver in Paris in the
1920s and 1930s and other emblematic events. Cycling as Industry
and economic activity is considered through an assessment of how
cycling firms have contributed to technological innovation at
various junctures in France's economic development. Cycling and the
Media is investigated through analysis of how cyclesport has
contributed to developments in the French press (in early decades)
but also to new trends in television and radio coverage of sports
events. Based on a very wide range of primary and secondary
sources, the volume aims to present in clear language an
explanation of the varied significance of cycling in France over
the last hundred years. An Open Access edition of this work is
available on the OAPEN Library.
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