1st Edition
Made in France Studies in Popular Music
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"
Preamble I: Introduction (Gérôme Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
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
Preamble II (Gérôme Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
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
Preamble III (Gérôme Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
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 the appeal of rap music (Stéphanie Molinero)
11. Towards a greater appreciation of the poetry of French rap (Christian Béthune)
12. Punk rock entrepreneurship in France (Fab
Biography
Gérôme Guibert is a doctor in sociology and associate professor at the Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle University. He has published many books, including La Production de la culture: Le cas des musiques amplifiées en France and is editor-in-chief of Volume!, the French journal of popular music studies.
Catherine Rudent is a doctor and an associate professor in musicology at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV). She is the author of L’Album de chansons: Entre processus social et œuvre musicale. A founding member of the European francophone branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), in 2011 she created a book series about popular music, Musiques Populaires Actuelles/Amplifiées.
