1st Edition
The Singer-Songwriter in Europe Paradigms, Politics and Place
List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: More than Words: Theorising the Singer-Songwriter - Stuart Green and Isabelle Marc
PART 1: PARADIGMS
‘The songs I’d write would be like that’: transnational influences between poets, composers, singer-songwriters’ - Franco Fabbri
Politique des chant-auteurs: French auteur theory and Italian canzone d’autore compared - Jacopo Conti
‘Words take the place of meaning’: sound, sense and politics in the music of Robert Wyatt - Richard Elliott
Thinking the canzone d’autore - Rachel Haworth
Rediscovered Sisters: women (and) singer-songwriters in Italy - Jacopo Tomatis
PART 2: POLITICS
‘I write the songs. He’s the eye candy’: the female singer-songwriter, the woman artist-producer and the British broadsheet press - Paula Wolfe
In Germany after the war: broadening the discourse on the Liedermacher - Dietmar Elflein
Judges, guitars, freedom and the mainstream: problematizing the early cantautor in Spain - Sílvia Martínez
Starting over: singer-songwriters and the rhythm of historical time in post-revolutionary Portugal - Luís Trindade
PART 3: PLACE
The re-invention of the French singer-songwriter in the Liberation years: Léo Ferré and the French poetic heritage in popular song - Peter Hawkins
When Jake Met Georges: the chanson across the channel - Mark Goodall
Transitions of the cantautor: aesthetics, politics and authenticity in Spanish popular music from the late Franco dictatorship to the present day - Fernán del Val and Stuart Green
A place for us? Building the sense of place in the ʻGenoese School’ of Cantautori - Alessandro Bratus and Giuseppa Vultaggio
Works Cited
Biography
Isabelle Marc is Lecturer at the Department of French in Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, where she teaches French language, culture and translation. She has worked extensively in the aesthetics of French popular music, covering genres such as rap and chanson, individual artists Georges Brassens, Charles Aznavour and Dominique A, and topics including identity, intertextuality and nostalgia. She has published in French, English and Spanish in journals such as French Cultural Studies, Journal of European Popular Culture, Volume. La revue des musiques populaires and IASMP Journal. Her latest research interests and publications explore nostalgia, transcultural phenomena, and cultural policy in the field of popular music and popular culture. She is co-editor of Theleme. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses and board member of IASPM Spain.
Stuart Green is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at University of Leeds, UK, where he teaches and researches on the performing arts in modern Spain. He is author of From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage, a study of the influence of Hollywood on theatre in Spain. His current research explores ways in which theatre, television, cinema and music engage with the question of ethnic diversity. He has published on this area in journals such as Journal of Spanish Popular Culture and Popular Music and Society. He is member of the editorial board of journal Estreno and co-editor of Intellect journal New Cinemas.
