Beyond Brassens: Twenty-First CenturyChansonand the New Generation of Singer-Songwriters

Autor:	Barbara Lebrun
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Sociology and Political Science Literariness Anthropology media_common.quotation_subject Twenty-First Century Art history Sociology Sophistication Period (music) media_common
Zdroj:	Modern & Contemporary France. 22:159-175
ISSN:	1469-9869 0963-9489
DOI:	10.1080/09639489.2014.886828
Popis:	This article considers the relevance of the notion of ‘generation’ for the study of cultural shifts in the production and critical reception of singer-songwriters in contemporary France, in the period 2005–12. Defining a ‘generation’ as an age cohort sharing socio-cultural characteristics and patterns of socialisation, it focuses on Camille, Benjamin Biolay, La Grande Sophie, Barbara Carlotti and other singer-songwriters who were all born in ‘the long 1970s’, and who achieved notoriety and success in the period in question. It demonstrates that the traditional discourse of chanson, dominant since the 1950s, defined by literariness and embodied by Georges Brassens, is being replaced by an emphasis on seduction, Anglophilia and multi-instrumental sophistication. Although these features have been central to the compositions of a number of ‘older’ singer-songwriters, including Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy and Alain Souchon, the deployment by today's critics of the notion of ‘generation’ helps to give sup...
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