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No Regrets
Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to the glamour of the Paris music-halls, Piaf formed lasting friendships with such figures as Maurice Chevalier, Jean Cocteau and Marlene Dietrich; she wrote many of her own songs, aided the Resistance in the Second World War, and mentored younger singers like Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour. Yet her path to stardom was full of tragedies - the death of her daughter in infancy; the death of Marcel Cerdan, her greatest love, in a plane crash; her many illnesses, affairs and addictions, all of which nourished her passionate performances and strengthened her enduring bond with audiences. In this mesmerising, definitive new biography Carolyn Burke gives us Piaf in her own time and place, illuminating through sympathetic readings of sources hitherto unavailable both the charm and the pathos of the 'Little Sparrow' who enchanted generations and still enthralls us today.
Renegotiating French Identity
In Renegotiating French Identity, Jane Fulcher addresses the question of cultural resistance to the German occupation and Vichy regime during the Second World War. Nazi Germany famously stressed music as a marker of national identity and cultural achievement, but so too did Vichy. From the opera to the symphony, music did not only serve the interests of Vichy and German propaganda: it also helped to reveal the motives behind them, and to awaken resistance among those growing disillusioned by the regime. Using unexplored Resistance documents, from both the clandestine press and the French National Archives, Fulcher looks at the responses of specific artists and their means of resistance, addressing in turn Pierre Schaeffer, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, and Olivier Messiaen, among others. This book investigates the role that music played in fostering a profound awareness of the cultural and political differences between conflicting French ideological positions, as criticism of Vichy and its policies mounted.
Jazz Historiography
Jazz has been around for over a hundred years but how much do we know about its history, and how much of what think we know is true? Beginning in the so called Jazz Age of the 1920s jazz history was recounted and interpreted by admiring authors and record collectors both in the United States and elsewhere. However, since the early 1990s some historians have come to doubt the validity of the conventional narrative of the story of jazz and some of its most hallowed traditions. In Jazz Historiography: The Story of Jazz History Writing Daniel Hardie uncovers the course of jazz history writing from early Jazz Age American and French publications to Academic texts in the 2000s, and seeks answers t...
César Franck
C sar Franck (1822-1890), Belgian born and French domiciled, was one of the most remarkable composers of the 19th century. A number of his works are commonly recorded--such as his Symphony in D Minor, Symphonic Variations, Violin Sonata, and the ever-popular Panis Angelicus--and yet 38 years have elapsed since a biography of him appeared in English. Now with C sar Franck: His Life and Times, R. J. Stove fills this gap in the history of late 19th-century classical music with a full-length study of the man and his music. Drawing on sources never before cited in English, Stove paints a far more detailed picture of this great musician and deeply loved man, whose influence in both his native and ...
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La vie musicale sous Vichy
Les résultats des recherches entreprises sur la vie musicale permettent de mesurer les incidences du temps de guerre sur la carrière des musiciens, sur la réception des oeuvres et sur certaines formes de sociabilité, la fréquentation des concerts ou la pratique en amateur devant être considérées comme des dérivatifs aux difficultés de la vie quotidienne.
Opéra et religion sous la IIIe République
Le présent ouvrage rassemble les actes du colloque organisé dans le cadre du 8e Festival Massenet de l'Opéra Théâtre de Saint-Etienne, autour des représentations du Jongleur de Notre-Dame de Massenet. L'opéra - genre, par excellence profane -, a manifesté, sous la très officiellement laïque IIIe République, un commerce singulier avec les sujets inspirés de la religion catholique. Etait-ce, outre une évidente question politique, l'attrait du fruit défendu, ou l'affirmation d'une appartenance imprescriptible qui multiplia les Å“uvres en ce domaine ? Etait-ce le témoignage d'une forme complexe d'indifférence à la foi et la libération paradoxale d'un sensualisme insistant qui Ã...
Louis Vuitton: uma saga
Em 1821, em uma pequena aldeia da região francesa do Jura, nasce Louis Vuitton. Aos catorze anos, apaixonado pelo trabalho com madeira, mas maltratado pela madrasta, com pouquÃssimo dinheiro no bolso e sem saber ler nem escrever, o adolescente decide tentar a vida em Paris. Viajando a pé por dois anos, o jovem Louis sofre todo tipo de privação até chegar à capital francesa, onde começa a fascinante saga da marca de artigos de luxo mais célebre do planeta. Nesta narrativa irretocável, acompanhamos o desenvolvimento do nome Louis Vuitton contra o pano de fundo histórico da França e da Europa: a monarquia constitucional de LuÃs Felipe, a ascensão e a queda de Napoleão III, a guerra Franco-Prussiana, a Comuna de Paris, o nascimento da República, as duas guerras mundiais. O que vemos é uma palpitante história de inovação, que parte da transformação de costumes e valores ocasionada pelos avanços tecnológicos e pela Revolução Industrial, chegando até o século XXI.
André Cluytens
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