1st Edition

Made in France Studies in Popular Music

Edited By Gérôme Guibert, Catherine Rudent Copyright 2018
    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    296 Pages
    by Routledge



    Made in France: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary French popular music. The volume consists of essays by scholars of French popular music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in France. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in France, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: The Mutations of French Popular Music During the "Trente Glorieuses"; Politicising Popular Music; Assimilation, Appropriation, French Specificity; and From Digital Stakes to Cultural Heritage: French Contemporary Topics.



    Contributors:



    Christian Béthune



    Juliette Dalbavie



    Gérôme Guibert



    Fabien Hein



    Olivier Julien



    Marc Kaiser



    Barbara Lebrun



    David Looseley



    Stéphanie Molinero



    Anne Petiau



    Cécile Prévost-Thomas



    Vincent Rouzé



    Catherine Rudent



    Matthieu Saladin



    Jedediah Sklower



    Raphaël Suire



    Florence Tamagne

    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.