Made in France

Introduction: What's the French Touch in French Popular Music? A sociohistorical introduction to chanson and other French repertoires (Gerome Guibert)

Part I: Zeitgeist. The mutations of French popular music during the "30 glorieuses"

Preamble I: Introduction (Gerome Guibert and Catherine Rudent)

1. Yeye covers or the keynote to a societal adaptation (Matthieu Saladin)

2. Juvenile delinquency, social unrest and national anxiety French debates and controversies over rock'n'roll in the 1960's and 1970's (Florence Tamagne)

3. "Lost song": Serge Gainsbourg and the transformation of French popular music (Olivier Julien)

4. The record industry in the 1960-1970s: The forgotten story of French popular music (Marc Kaiser)

Part II: Politicizing popular music

Preamble II (Gerome Guibert and Catherine Rudent)

5. Aural wars: Race, class, politics and the dilemmas of free jazzmen in sixties France (Jedediah Sklower)

6. Marche ou creve: The band Trust and the singular case of the birth of French heavy metal (Gerome Guibert)

7. Rock, race and the republic: Musical identities in post-colonial France (Barbara Lebrun)

Part III: Assimilation, appropriation, French specificity

Preamble III (Gerome Guibert and Catherine Rudent)

8. Chanson francaise: Between musical realities and social representations (Cecile Prevost-Thomas)

9. Chanson francaise: A genre without musical identity (Catherine Rudent)

10. Rap audiences in France: The diversification and heterogenization of the appeal of rap music (Stephanie Molinero)

11. Towards a greater appreciation of the poetry of French rap (Christian Bethune)

12. Punk rock entrepreneurship in France (Fabien Hein)

Part IV: From digital stakes to cultural heritage: French contemporary topics

Preamble IV (Gerome Guibert and Catherine Rudent)

13. Incorporating chanson into heritage, a shared process between museums and collective memory: the case study of George Brassens in Sete (Juliette Dalbavie)

14. Tecktonick and danses electro: subculture, media processes and web 2.0 (Anne Petiau)

15. My dealer is a rock-star: Digital piracy and social networks in the context of the French three-strikes law (HADOPI) (Raphael Suire and Sylvain Dejean)

16. At the intersections of popular music: From background music to localized alternative musical experiences (Vincent Rouze)

Coda: Rethinking the popular? Some reflections on popular music in France and Britain (David Looseley)

Afterword: We freed ourselves from the band format: A Conversation with Nicolas Godin (Air - French band) (Gerome Guibert)

A selected bibliography on French popular music

Index