Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno
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French cultural studies
French Music
French Music Industry
French Popular Music
French popular music globalisation
Ginette Vincendeau
Hip Hop
Independent Record
Jean De Florette
Lang Set
language policy music
Le Guern
Les Amants Du Pont Neuf
Les Inrockuptibles
MC Solaar
media transformation France
minitel telematics system
Music Coverage
Music Programming
musicology research
Pay Tv Channel
Pop Stars
popular music
regional identity politics
Salut Les Copains
socio-cultural modernisation
USA Network
West Germany
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780754608493
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 culture became an integral part of burgeoning media activity. Press, radio and television developed free from de Gaulle's state domination of information, and political activism shifted its concerns to the use of regional languages and regional cultures, including the safeguard of traditional popular music against the centralising tendencies of the Republican state. The cultural and political significance of French music was again revealed in the 1990s, as French-language music became a highly visible example of France's quest to maintain her cultural 'exceptionalism' in the face of the perceived globalising hegemony of English and US business and cultural imperialism. Laws were passed instituting minimum quotas of French-language music. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed developing issues raised by new technologies, as compact discs, the minitel telematics system, the internet and other innovations in radio and television broadcasting posed new challenges to musicians and the music industry. These trends and developments are the subject of this volume of essays by leading scholars across a range of disciplines including French studies, musicology, cultural and media studies and film studies. It constitutes the first attempt to provide a complete and up-to-date overview of the place of popular music in modern France and the reception of French popular music abroad.
Hugh Dauncey, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and Steve Cannon, University of Sunderland, UK Contributors: R. Middleton, P. Leguern, D. Looseley, H. Dauncey, G. Hare, M. Pires, P. Powrie, R. Stilwell, Leo Ferre, C. Tinker, C. Lloyd, P. Teillet, S. Cannon, K. Reader, P. Birgy.
