Made in France: Studies in Popular Music

Contents

• Introduction: What's the French Touch in French Popular Music? A sociohistorical introduction to chanson and other French repertoires (Gerome Guibert)
• Part I: Zeitgeist. The mutations of French popular music during the "30 glorieuses"
• Preamble I: Introduction (Gerome Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
• 1. Yeye covers or the keynote to a societal adaptation (Matthieu Saladin)
• 2. Juvenile delinquency, social unrest and national anxiety French debates and controversies over rock'n'roll in the 1960's and 1970's (Florence Tamagne)
• 3. "Lost song": Serge Gainsbourg and the transformation of French popular music (Olivier Julien)
• 4. The record industry in the 1960-1970s: The forgotten story of French popular music (Marc Kaiser)
• Part II: Politicizing popular music
• Preamble II (Gerome Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
• 5. Aural wars: Race, class, politics and the dilemmas of free jazzmen in sixties France (Jedediah Sklower)
• 6. Marche ou creve: The band Trust and the singular case of the birth of French heavy metal (Gerome Guibert)
• 7. Rock, race and the republic: Musical identities in post-colonial France (Barbara Lebrun)
• Part III: Assimilation, appropriation, French specificity
• Preamble III (Gerome Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
• 8. Chanson francaise: Between musical realities and social representations (Cecile Prevost-Thomas)
• 9. Chanson francaise: A genre without musical identity ( Catherine Rudent )
• 10. Rap audiences in France: The diversification and heterogenization of the appeal of rap music ( Stephanie Molinero )
• 11. Towards a greater appreciation of the poetry of French rap (Christian Bethune)
• 12. Punk rock entrepreneurship in France (Fabien Hein)
• Part IV: From digital stakes to cultural heritage: French contemporary topics
• Preamble IV (Gerome Guibert and Catherine Rudent)
• 13. Incorporating chanson into heritage, a shared process between museums and collective memory: the case study of George Brassens in Sete (Juliette Dalbavie)
• 14. Tecktonick and danses electro: subculture, media processes and web 2.0 (Anne Petiau)
• 15. My dealer is a rock-star: Digital piracy and social networks in the context of the French three-strikes law (HADOPI) (Raphael Suire and Sylvain Dejean)
• 16. At the intersections of popular music: From background music to localized alternative musical experiences (Vincent Rouze)
• Coda: Rethinking the popular? Some reflections on popular music in France and Britain (David Looseley)
• Afterword: We freed ourselves from the band format: A Conversation with Nicolas Godin (Air - French band) (Gerome Guibert)
• A selected bibliography on French popular music
• Index