Popular music in contemporary France
Subtitle: authenticity, politics, debate
By: David L. Looseley.
Series: Berg French studies
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New Yrok
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Popular music -- France -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Social aspects -- France
Description: "This book investigates the exciting and innovative segmentation of the French music scene and the debates it has spawned. From an analysis of the chanson as national myth, to pop, rap, techno and the State, this book is the first full-length study to make sense of the complexity behind the history of French popular music and its relation to 'authentic' cultural identity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Popular music before 1958; title: The 1960s : authenticity and barbarism; title: From 1968 to the present : authenticity and métissage; title: Chanson as national myth : the authenticity debate; title: Denationalising authenticity : the sociological debate; title: Music and politics before 1981; title: Music and politics, 1981-93; title: Policy and the music industry at the end of the millennium; title: Policy and its discontents : the republican debate; title: Techno and the state : the cultural debate.