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

by Dimitris Papanikolaou

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367604233
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dimitris Papanikolaou

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Mote on Transliteration, References, and Translations xi

Preface xii

Introduction 1

1 Poetry and the Songs: The Genre of Auteurs-Compositeurs-Interprètes and its Impact on French Popular Music in the 1950s and 1960s 11

Poetry and the System of French Song 11

Georges Brassens: The Troubadour as a Nation 20

Songwriters as 'Poètes d'aujourd'hui': The Canon Politics of a Literary Series 34

2 Greece of the Two Composers: Popular Music as a National Institution in Greece, 1948-1963 61

Before the Two Composers 62

Manos Hadjidakis and the Reproduction of Rebetiko 70

Mikis Theodorakis and the Invention of Laiko 78

3 The 1960s, the Singer-Songwriter, and his Way to A-void: Dionysis Sawopoulos and the New Challenges of Popular Music, 1963-1975 101

'The Spirit of the Sixties' and the Dissonant Politics of Mimicry 101

The Troubadour on Stage: Yéyé Confusions from the Greek Georges Brassens 114

Subterranean Void Blues: Sawopoulos through Jouissance 129

Epilogue 157

Bibliography 161

List of Recordings 171

Index 173