1st Edition
Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno Culture, Identity and Society
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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In France during the 1960s and 1970s, popular music became a key component of socio-cultural modernisation as the music/record industry became increasingly important in both economic and cultural terms in response to demographic changes and the rise of the modern media. As France began questioning traditional ways of understanding politics and culture before and after May 1968, music as popular... Read more
Introduction; Book I: Renaissance and Reformation; I: The Beginning; II: The Mediæval Soul; III: The Incubation Period; IV: La Rinascieta; V: Reason Takes Charge; VI: The German Religion; VII: The Night of St. Bartholomew; Chronology
Biography
Hugh Dauncey
'... an immensely valuable collection of essays, enriched by a jewel of a bibliography that will surely inspire scholars in the interdisciplinary field of French cultural studies, where history and sociology come together with high, low and middlebrow forms of expressions.' H-France Reviews
