Popular music in France from chanson to techno : culture, identity, and society

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Title Page
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Contents
List of Contributors
General Editor's Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: Music, modernization and popular identity
1 The study of popular music between sociology and aesthetics: a survey of current research in France
	Being a musician: from learning to doing
	The musical field: from public policies to the record business
	A sociology of reception: the mediation of music and its audiences
	Conclusion
2 In from the margins: chanson, pop and cultural legitimacy
3 The French music industry: structures, challenges and responses
	The French music business: fragile or just French?
	MP3 and e-music: a 'French touch' from Vivendi-Universal?
	The French Music Export Office: the record label 'France'?
	Conclusion
4 Popular music on French radio and television
	Radio
		Pre-1981: limited radio outlets for popular music
		The post-war 'state radio monopoly'
		The 1980s and 1990s: new radio outlets and more musical specialization
		Independent radio in the 1980s and 1990s: the Anglo-American invasion
		Linguistic quotas and the defence of French musical culture
		Music radio in the twenty-first century
	Television
		Popular music and the 'variety show' in the public service television era
		Popular music and the 'variety show' in the era of commercial TV
		Effects of television quotas on the variety show genre
		Radio killed the variety star
		Music and 'post-television'
		Dedicated music channels: France versus America
		The search for a commercial music channel on terrestrial television
		M6 and the youth music audience
		New pay-TV channels and niche broadcasting
	MCM
		'Le video-clip'
	Conclusion
5 The popular music press
	The place of music in the press
	Top Réalités ]eunesse
	Rallye-Jeunesse
	Nous les garçons et les filles
	Disco Revue
	Salut les copains
	Rock & Folk
	Les Inrockuptibles, and beyond
	Conclusion
6 The disintegration of community: popular music in French cinema 1945–present
	Chanson (1930–1945) and French community
	Operetta and French swing (1935–1955): carrying on the good times
	Jazz and yéyé (1955–1970): the ghost of the chanson and the disintegration of community
	The compilation score (1980–)
		a) Classical music
		b) Postmodern mix
		c) Pop songs
		d) USA/France
	Conclusion
7 Le Demy-monde: the bewitched, betwixt and between French musical
	A musical digression: French style with an American accent (and vice versa)
	Film musicals and national cinema
	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
	Dance interlude: Paris/New York/Hollywood/Rochefort
	Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
	Conclusion
8 Chanson engagée and political activism in the 1950s and 1960s: Léo Ferré and Georges Brassens
	Discography
9 Divided loyalties: singing in the Occupation
10 Rock and culture in France: ways, processes and conditions of integration
	The intellectualization of rock
	A process of music criticism
	An unusual intellectualization
	Rock and local political culture
		The birth of 'rock policy'
		Cultural policies and local identities
		Rock scenes and cultural identities
		Issues in the instrumentalization of rock scenes to create local cultural identities
11 Globalization, Americanization and hip hop in France
	From the Bronx to the banlieues
	'De Ia planète Mars(eille)': Global and local identities in Marseille hip hop
	What's in a name?
	Imperial Asiatic Men
	Invasion Arrivant de Mars
	Indépendantistes Autonomes Marseillais
	Le Mia
	Conclusion
	lAM -Selected Discography
12 Flaubert's sparrow, or the Bovary of Belleville: Édith Piaf as cultural icon
	Piaf's life
	Édith and Marcel
	Piaf and Emma Bovary
	'Mon légionnaire' (1936)
	'L' Accordéoniste' (1942)
	'Hymne à I'amour' (1951)
	'Padam ... padam ...' (1951)
	'Milord' (1956)
	'La Foule' (1958)
	'Les Mots d'amour' (1961)
	Conclusion
13 French electronic music: the invention of a tradition
	Techno in France: the institution of a genre
	Foreignness as style
	Local tensions and global significance
Conclusion: French popular music, cultural exception and globalization
	Conclusion
Bibliography
Index