Popular music in France from chanson to techno : culture, identity and society / edited by Hugh Dauncey and Steve Cannon.

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Other Authors: Cannon, Steve, 1963-, Dauncey, Hugh, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2003.
Series:Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Music, modernization and popular identity / Richard Middleton
  • The study of popular music between sociology and aesthetics: a survey of current research in France / Philippe Le Guern
  • In from the margins: chanson, pop and cultural legitimacy / David Looseley
  • The French music industry: structures challenges and responses / Hugh Dauncey
  • Popular music on French radio and television / Geoff Hare
  • The popular music press / Mat Pires
  • The disintegration of community: popular music in French cinema 1945-present / Phil Powrie
  • Le Demy-monde: the bewitched, betwixt and between French musical / Robynn J. Stilwell
  • Chanson engagée and political activism in the 1950s and 1960s: Léo Ferré and Georges Brassens / Chris Tinker
  • Divided loyalties: singing in the occupation / Christopher Lloyd
  • Rock and culture in France: ways, processes and conditions of integration / Philippe Teillet
  • Globalization, Americanization and hip hop in France / Steve Cannon
  • Flaubert's sparrow, or the Bovary of Belleville: Édith Piaf as cultural icon / Keith Reader
  • French electronic music: the invention of a tradition / Philippe Birgy
  • Conclusion: French popular music, cultural exception and globalization / Hugh Dauncey and Steve Cannon.