Chanson: The French Singer-Songwriter from Aristide Bruant to the Present Day
- Author: Hawkins, Peter
This affectionate [...] study by a Senior Researcher Fellow at the University of Bristol examines the modern chason realist, the mainstay of French popular music for well over a century —
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Contents
- Contents: Part I: A Little theory goes a long Way: What is chanson?
- How do you write about chanson?
- What is not chanson: some fine distinctions - poetry and Chanson, art song and chanson, musical comedy and chanson, chansonniers and chanson, folksong and chanson, folksong and chanson, chanson and the singer-songwriter
- The gender of the genre - masculinities, Anne Sylvestre, Veronique Sanson, What happened to the women singer-songwriter?
- The psycho-anthropology of everday chanson
- The frenchness of chanson
- Part II: Practice makes perfect: Precursors - Artistide Bruant, Georgius, Yvette Guilbert, Mireille, Edith Piaf
- The charm of Charles Trenet
- Charles Aznavour: a sentimental realist
- Leo Ferre: creating a space for transgression
- Georges Brassens: the appropriation for a literarcy heritage
- Jacques Brel: the dramatic synthesis
- Barbara: performing the feminine
- Serge Gainsbourg: how to win by cheating
- Part III: Innovation and renovation: the nouvelle chanson franAaise: Bernard Lavilliers carrying world music on his shoulders
- Renaud: the apotheosis of satire, parody and slang
- Alain Souchon and Laurent Voulzy: Lennon and McCartney are alive and well and working in Paris
- Michel Jonasz: a personal fusion
- MC Solaar: a gardener of words
- From one fin de siecle to another
- General Miscellaneous bibliography and discography
- Index.