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 Bethune

Juliette Dalbavie

Gerome Guibert

Fabien Hein

Olivier Julien

Marc Kaiser

Barbara Lebrun

David Looseley

Stephanie Molinero

Anne Petiau

Cecile Prevost-Thomas

Vincent Rouze

Catherine Rudent

Matthieu Saladin

Jedediah Sklower

Raphael Suire

Florence Tamagne

About the Author

Gerome Guibert is a doctor in sociology and associate professor at the Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle University. He has published many books, including La Production de la culture: Le cas des musiques amplifiees en France and is editor-in-chief of Volume!, the French journal of popular music studies.

Catherine Rudent is a doctor and an associate professor in musicology at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV). She is the author of L'Album de chansons: Entre processus social et oeuvre musicale. A founding member of the European francophone branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), in 2011 she created a book series about popular music, Musiques Populaires Actuelles/Amplifiees.

Reviews

"The reader is impressed by how much scholarly writing has been devoted to the subject of popular music in France during the past sixty years. In the 24 studies and introductory essays constituting this volume, almost every statement is backed by some form of documentation. Each study and the whole book are accompanied by an extensive bibliography. Also 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."
-James P. Gilroy, University of Denver, USA

" Y a-t-il quelque chose de specifiquement francais dans la musique francaise ? " Ainsi s'ouvre Made in France, dirige par Gerome Guibert et Catherine Rudent. L'interet de ce recueil est, d'une part, de poser la question dans le champ des musiques populaires ... D'autre part, l'etude porte sur une periode riche en revolutions sociales, culturelles et economiques, allant de la seconde moitie du xxe siecle a nos jours. Mais pas question ici de tirer des conclusions definitives au sujet d'un phenomene aussi dynamique que celui de la musique populaire francaise. Il s'agit au contraire d'en dresser un portrait " cubiste " aux problematiques multiples - sociologiques, musicologiques, esthetiques, technologiques, ideologiques et litteraires. Cette pluridisciplinarite des articles compiles offre une richesse bibliographique que nous saluerons des a present : Made in France est une synthese de facto incontournable des differentes traditions de la recherche francaise sur sa culture musicale nationale.
- Mathieu Guillien, Revue de musicologie, France

Book Information
ISBN 9781138793040
Author Gerome Guibert
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 657g