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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewA 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
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Poetry and the Songs: The Genre of Auteurs-Compositeurs-Interprètes 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
