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Chanson

Author : Peter Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351572407
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Chanson written by Peter Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En France, tout finit par des chansons' is the well-known phrase which sums up the importance of chanson for the French. A song tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages and troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, chanson is part of the texture of everyday life in France - a part of the national identity and a barometer of popular taste. In this first study of chanson in English, Peter Hawkins examines the background to the genre and the difficulties in defining what is and what is not chanson. The focus then moves to the development of the singer-songwriter of chanson from 1880 to the present day. This period saw the emergence of national icons from Aristide Bruant at the end of the nineteenth century through to internationally recognized musicians such as Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg. Each of these figures used chanson to express the particular moral dilemmas, tragic situations and moments of euphoria particular to themselves and their times. The book provides bibliographies, discographies and details of video recordings for each of the singer-songwriters that it discusses. It is both an essential reference guide to the genre and a useful case history of the adaptation of an ancient form to the demands of the modern mass media.

An Introduction to the Chansons de Geste

Author : Catherine Mary Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813061917
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Chansons de Geste written by Catherine Mary Jones and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the best-known and most frequently taught chanson de geste ("songs of heroic deeds") from medieval France, including the Song of Roland and the Voyage of Charlemagne.

Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno

Author : Hugh Dauncey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351553690
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno written by Hugh Dauncey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Songs of France

Author : Jerry Silverman
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1609740122
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Songs of France written by Jerry Silverman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully pleasing potpourri of ballads, songs, and glimpses of the colorful diversity and history of the French people. Thirty-seven songs are included. Lyrics are in French and in English. All the music is scored in piano/vocal format.

A History of French Literature

Author : David Coward
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of French Literature written by David Coward and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent volume provides a complete history of the literature of France from its origins to the present day, taking us beyond traditional definitions of 'literature' into the world of the best-seller and, beyond words, to graphic fiction and.

Heroes of the French Epic

Author :
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831471
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Heroes of the French Epic written by and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The translations preserve the dynamic, musical qualities of their oral-based originals, and are intended for both general and more specialised readers. Introductions and Select Bibliographies accompany each poem."--Jacket.

The Melody

Author : Jim Crace
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385543727
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Melody written by Jim Crace and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his tiny Mediterranean town for his music, he is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days. Then one night, Busi is viciously attacked by an intruder in his own courtyard—bitten and scratched. He insists his assailant was neither man nor animal. Soon, Busi’s account of what happened is being embellished to fan the flames of old rumor—of an ancient race of people living in the surrounding forest. It is also used to spark new controversy, inspiring claims that something must finally be done about the town’s poor, whose numbers have been growing. In trademark crystalline prose, Jim Crace portrays a man taking stock of his life and looking into an uncertain future, while bearing witness to a community in the throes of great change.

Imagining the popular in contemporary French culture

Author : Diana Holmes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130262
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the popular in contemporary French culture written by Diana Holmes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book is about what ‘popular culture’ means in France, and how the term’s shifting meanings have been negotiated and contested. It represents the first theoretically informed study of the way that popular culture is lived, imagined, fought over and negotiated in modern and contemporary France. It covers a wide range of overarching concerns: the roles of state policy, the market, political ideologies, changing social contexts and new technologies in the construction of the popular. But it also provides a set of specific case studies showing how popular songs, stories, films, TV programmes and language styles have become indispensable elements of ‘culture’ in France. Deploying yet also rethinking a ‘Cultural Studies’ approach to the popular, the book therefore challenges dominant views of what French culture really means today.

Sixty Folksongs of France

Author : Julien Tiersot
Publisher : Boston : Oliver Ditson Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sixty Folksongs of France written by Julien Tiersot and published by Boston : Oliver Ditson Company. This book was released on 1915 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From the chanson française to the canzone d'autore in the 1960s and 1970s

Author : Dr Rachel Haworth
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409441733
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book From the chanson française to the canzone d'autore in the 1960s and 1970s written by Dr Rachel Haworth and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The similarities between the chanson française and the canzone d'autore have been often noted but never fully explored. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing textual analysis of song lyrics, cultural history and popular music studies, Rachel Haworth considers the different ways in which French and Italian song is thought about, written about and constructed.

Made in France

Author : Gérôme Guibert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317645707
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Made in France written by Gérôme Guibert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in France: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary French popular music. The volume consists of essays by scholars of French popular music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in France. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in France, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: The Mutations of French Popular Music During the "Trente Glorieuses"; Politicising Popular Music; Assimilation, Appropriation, French Specificity; and From Digital Stakes to Cultural Heritage: French Contemporary Topics. Contributors: Christian Béthune Juliette Dalbavie Gérôme Guibert Fabien Hein Olivier Julien Marc Kaiser Barbara Lebrun David Looseley Stéphanie Molinero Anne Petiau Cécile Prévost-Thomas Vincent Rouzé Catherine Rudent Matthieu Saladin Jedediah Sklower Raphaël Suire Florence Tamagne

The Lais of Marie De France

Author : Marie France
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141389346
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Lais of Marie De France written by Marie France and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where very real human protagonists act out their lives against fairy-tale elements of magical beings, potions and beasts. De France takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love, whether telling the story of the knight who betrays his fairy mistress or describing the noblewoman who embroiders her sad tale on the shroud for a nightingale killed by a jealous and suspicious husband.

The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music

Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316298299
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music written by Anna Maria Busse Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.

Protest Music in France

Author : Barbara Lebrun
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131707419X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Protest Music in France written by Barbara Lebrun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Lebrun traces the evolution of 'protest' music in France since 1981, exploring the contradictions that emerge when artists who take their musical production and political commitment 'seriously', cross over to the mainstream, becoming profitable and consensual. Contestation is understood as a discourse shaped by the assumptions and practices of artists, producers, the media and audiences, for whom it makes sense to reject politically reactionary ideas and the dominant taste for commercial pop. Placing music in its economic, historical and ideological context, however, reveals the fragility and instability of these oppositions. The book firstly concentrates on music production in France, the relationships between independent labels, major companies and the state's cultural policies. This section provides the material background for understanding the development of rock alternatif, France's self-styled 'subversive' genre of the 1980s, and explains the specificity of a 'protest' music culture in late-twentieth-century France, in relation to the genre's tradition in the West. The second part looks at representations of a 'protest' identity in relation to discourses of national identity, focusing on two 1990s sub-genres. The first, chanson néo-réaliste, contests modernity through the use of acoustic instruments, but its nostalgic 'protest' raises questions about the artists' real engagement with the present. The second, rock métis, borrows from North African and Latino rhythms and challenges the 'neutral' Frenchness of the Republic, while advocating multiculturalism in problematic ways. A discussion of Manu Chao's career, a French artist who has achieved success abroad, also allows an exploration of the relationship between transnationalism and anti-globalization politics. Finally, the book examines the audiences of French 'protest' music and considers festivals as places of 'non-mainstream' identity negotiation. Based on first-hand interviews, this section highlights the vocabulary of emotions that audiences use to make sense of an 'alternative' performance, unveiling the contradictions that underpin their self-definition as participants in a 'protest' culture. The book contributes to debates on the cultural production of 'resistance' and the representation of post-colonial identities, uncovering the social constructedness of the discourse of 'protest' in France. It pays attention to its nation-specific character while offering a wider reflection on the fluidity of 'subversive' identities, with potential applications across a range of Western music practices.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

Author : Simon Gaunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139827874
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature written by Simon Gaunt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.

La France

Author : Claude Rivière
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book La France written by Claude Rivière and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gabriele d'Annunzio in France. A study in cultural relations. (1. ed.) -(Syracus, N. Y.): Syracuse Univ. Press (1966). XII, 243 S., 2 Bl. Abb. 8°

Author : Giovanni Gullace
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gabriele d'Annunzio in France. A study in cultural relations. (1. ed.) -(Syracus, N. Y.): Syracuse Univ. Press (1966). XII, 243 S., 2 Bl. Abb. 8° written by Giovanni Gullace and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1966-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: