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Made in France: Studies in Popular Music ed. by Gérôme Guibert, and Catherine Rudent (review)
Ist Teil von
The French Review, 2019-05, Vol.92 (4), p.223-224
Ort / Verlag
Carbondale: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE: Universal journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]noteworthy is the fluidity of the terminology used to designate the various genres of popular music, the same words meaning different things to different people. Since the essays embrace such a wide variety of topics, it is best to point out important general trends. Rock and roll was followed by hip-hop, punk, rap, and other novelties that were assimilated with greater or lesser difficulty into French cultural life. Following upon the traditions of variété, music-hall, and café-concert, the more modern chanson includes: (1) the spare style of a single voice paired with a single instrument, (2) more sophisticated orchestrations made possible in a recording studio, (3) a more serious type of singing characterized by melodic sentimentality (Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu) and a nostalgic celebration of Paris, (4) a style based on jazz rhythms, (5) chanson néo-réaliste, lamenting the darker side of human life among the socially underprivileged.