Made in France

Studies in Popular Music

Edited by Gérôme Guibert, Catherine Rudent

November 2017 | Routledge

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Introduction

What’s the French Touch in French Popular Music? A sociohistorical introduction to chanson and other French repertoires
GÉRÔME GUIBERT

 

Part I: Zeitgeist. The mutations of French popular music during the “30 glorieuses”

1. Yéyé covers or the keynote to a societal adaptation
MATTHIEU SALADIN
2. Juvenile delinquency, social unrest and national anxiety French debates and controversies over rock’n’roll in the 1960’s and 1970’s
FLORENCE TAMAGNE
3. “Lost song”: Serge Gainsbourg and the transformation of French popular music
OLIVIER JULIEN
4. The record industry in the 1960-1970s: The forgotten story of French popular music
MARC KAISER

 

Part II: Politicizing popular music

5. Aural wars: Race, class, politics and the dilemmas of free jazzmen in sixties France
JEDEDIAH SKLOWER
6. Marche ou crève: The band Trust and the singular case of the birth of French heavy metal
GÉRÔME GUIBERT
7. Rock, race and the republic: Musical identities in post-colonial France
BARBARA LEBRUN

 

Part III: Assimilation, Appropriation, French specificity

8. Chanson française: Between musical realities and social representations
CÉCILE PRÉVOST-THOMAS
9. Chanson française: A genre without musical identity
CATHERINE RUDENT
10. Rap audiences in France: The diversification and heterogenization of musical tastes
STÉPHANIE MOLINERO
11. Towards a greater appreciation of the poetry of French rap
CHRISTIAN BÉTHUNE
12. Punk rock entrepreneurship in France
FABIEN HEIN

 

Part IV: From digital stakes to cultural heritage: French contemporary topics

13. Incorporating chanson into heritage, a shared process between museums and collective memory: the case study of George Brassens in Sète
JULIETTE DALBAVIE
14. Tecktonick and danses électro: subculture, media processes and web 2.0
ANNE PETIAU
15. My dealer is a rock-star: Digital piracy and social networks in the context of the French three-strikes law (HADOPI)
RAPHAËL SUIRE and SYLVAIN DEJEAN
16. At the intersections of popular music: From background music to localized alternative musical experiences
VINCENT ROUZÉ

 

Coda

17. Rethinking the popular? Some reflections on popular music in France and Britain
DAVID LOOSELEY

 

Afterword

18. We freed ourselves from the band format: A Conversation with Nicolas Gaudin (Air – French band)
GÉRÔME GUIBERT