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9781904350620

Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (1945-1975)

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    9781904350620

  • ISBN10:

    1904350623

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-02-22
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Between 1945 and 1975, both France and Greece developed an interplay between literature and popular music, each making a new national canon. Literature provided the aesthetic criteria, the cultural prestige and the institutional basis for what aspired to be a higher form of popular song. Published poems were turned into popular songs, while a critical discourse, in return, celebrated songwriters not only for being as good as poets, but for being singing poets in their own right. In France, there were Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré and Serge Gainsbourg. In Greece, the presitigious title of tragoudopoios (maker of songs) was awarded to Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hadjidakis and Dionysis Savvopoulos. This challenging and stimulating study draws on a wealth of materials, from theoretical writings by poets, through their lyrics, to the record sleeves and posters used to promote them.

Author Biography

Dimitris Papanikolaou is University Lecturer in Modern Greek at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Poetry and the songs : the genre of Auteurs-Compositeurs-Interpretes and its impact on French popular music in the 1950s and 1960sp. 11
Poetry and the system of French songp. 11
Georges Brassens : the troubadour as a nationp. 20
Songwriters as 'Poetes d'aujourd'hui' : the canon politics of a literary seriesp. 34
Greece of the two composers : popular music as a national institution in Greece, 1948-1963p. 61
Before the two composersp. 62
Manos Hadjidakis and the reproduction of Rebetikop. 70
Mikis Theodorakis and the invention of Laikop. 78
The 1960s, the singer-songwriter, and his way to A-void : Dionysis Savvopoulos and the new challenges of popular music, 1963-1975p. 101
'The spirit of the sixties' and the dissonant politics of mimicryp. 101
The Troubadour on stage : Yeye confusions from the Greek Georges Brassensp. 114
Subterranean void blues : Savvopoulos through Jouissancep. 129
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