History of French Pop (w/ guest Jonathyne Briggs)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2016

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Brian and Bill sit down in the virtual lecture hall with Professor Jonathyne Briggs of Indiana University Northwest who literally wrote the book on French music with Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities and Pop Music, 1958-1980 (2015, Oxford University Press). We get a cool history lesson on how rock and roll entered French pop in the 60s and its influence on France's culture through today. From chansons and Elvis Presley to the Beatles and Dylan and onto new wave and electronic music, we explore how an international audience reacted to, were inspired by, and innovated genres we only thought we were well versed in. Jonathyne kindly curated a play list of 10 songs that includes Franciose Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Polnareff, Telephone, Marquis de Sade, Alain Bashung, Les Rita Mitsouko, Louise Attaque, Air, and M83! We make our way through it, questioning and commenting as Bill mangles the pronounciation of everything, a track at a time.

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0:00.0	Yeah!
0:01.0	Yeah! Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:42.8	And I'm Brian.
0:43.8	And Brian, what were we just listening to right there?
0:46.1	We were just listening to Secoma Car by Lerida Mazuko.
0:50.9	And if you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a different
0:56.2	album of music and talk about what makes it great. Usually following up with some stories about
1:01.8	our relationship with the music and listening to it as well as a little bit about the band
1:07.0	and the history of the music itself and then going into a track-by-track discussion of that
1:12.8	album. But this week we're doing something a little bit different. Yes. Decidedly different,
1:19.2	actually. I don't even know. Why would we lie and say a little different? Yeah, this is something
1:24.0	like it's going to be a really unique conversation. Yeah, although we've done numerical type of episodes, you know, 10 great songs, 12 guilty pleasures, things like that.
1:34.0	This is a little more in that vein, but different still.
1:39.4	So joining us on the podcast today via Skype is Jonathan Briggs a professor at Indiana University
1:48.6	Northwest.
1:49.6	Hi Jonathan.
1:50.6	Hi Bill.
1:51.6	How are you?
1:52.6	I'm very good.
1:53.6	Thank you.
1:54.6	Excellent.
1:55.6	Welcome to the podcast.
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