Acknowledgements
About the Companion Website
Introduction: Sounds Uncertain
Chapter 1: Sounds Young: Copains and the Community of Youth
Chapter 2: Sounds Traditional: The chanson as a Site of
Globalization
Chapter 3: Sounds Revolutionary: Progressive Rock and Cultural
Revolutions
Chapter 4: Sounds Regional: The World in Breton Folk Music
Chapter 5: Sounds Distorted: Punque and the Limits of
Globalization
Coda: Sounds French
Bibliography
Jonathyne Briggs is an associate professor of history at Indiana University Northwest, where he teaches on European youth culture and the history of pop music. He has published extensively on French popular music in the 1960s and '70s in journals and collections. He lives in Chicago, still toys with his favorite guitar, and hopes that someday Daft Punk will play at his house.
"Jonathyne Briggs provides an excellent and engaging new reading of
French popular-musical history that is expertly researched. It
makes an important contribution to the small but growing anglophone
literature on an area which still has trouble finding a home among
traditional university disciplines...Briggs writes knowledgeably,
confidently, and always accessibly."--Volume!
"Jonathyne Briggs's new book, Sounds French: Globalization,
Cultural Communities, and Pop Music, 1958-1980, goes a long way
towards filling this lacuna, offering one of the most extensive
treatments to date of how the influence exercised by American
popular music after 1955 made itself felt in France. For this
reason alone Briggs's volume marks an important intervention in the
nascent field of French popular music studies... Not only does
Briggs offer
readers a coherent account of French popular music's evolution in
response to global pressures; he also--and perhaps more
significantly--exhibits a detailed knowledge of and appreciation
for the diverse music
scenes, musicians, and types of music he discusses. .. With its
expansive vision of French pop and its attentiveness to musical
texts, Sounds French is a foundation upon which future work in
French popular music studies may fruitfully build."--H-France
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