Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno: Culture, Identity and Society (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

Cover Page -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- General Editor's Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Music, modernization and popular identity -- 1 The study of popular music between sociology and aesthetics: a survey of current research in France -- 2 In from the margins: chanson, pop and cultural legitimacy -- 3 The French music industry: structures, challenges and responses -- 4 Popular music on French radio and television -- 5 The popular music press -- 6 The disintegration of community: popular music in French cinema 1945-present -- 7 Le Demy-monde: the bewitched, betwixt and between French musical -- 8 Chanson engag?e and political activism in the 1950s and 1960s: L?o Ferr? and Georges Brassens -- 9 Divided loyalties: singing in the Occupation -- 10 Rock and culture in France: ways, processes and conditions of integration -- 11 Globalization, Americanization and hip hop in France -- 12 Flaubert's sparrow, or the Bovary of Belleville: Edith Piaf as cultural icon -- 13 French electronic music: the invention of a tradition -- Conclusion: French popular music, cultural exception and globalization -- Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: Steve Cannon
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 28, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Music
• | ISBN-10: 1138277371
• | ISBN-13: 9781138277373