This book shows how the model of singing poets becomes then an organizing principle for a system of national popular music. It responds to the growing call for the teaching of the textual networks of popular music within the domains of literary and cultural studies.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
A well-informed and satisfying study. -- Modern Language Review Modern Language Review This engaging and stimulating study... is a fascinating examination of the construction and reception of "high-popular" musical genres and specific debates surrounding the question of what "good" and "authentic" national music should be. -- Popular Music Popular Music Makes a significant contribution to the study of Modern Greek culture, and also forwards the thinking behind what makes the conjunction between high and popular culture in any context... -- French Studies French Studies
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 174 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-904350-62-0 (9781904350620)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Introduction 1. Poetry and the Songs: The Genre of Auteurs-Compositeurs-Interpretes and its Impact on French Popular Music in the 1950s and 1960s 2. Greece of the Two Composers: Popular Music as a National Institution in Greece, 1948-1963 3. The 1960s, the Singer-Songwriter, and his Way to A-void: Dionysis Savvopoulos and the New Challenges of Popular Music, 1963-1975 4. Epilogue
