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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Anarchie en France: Hypermodernity and French popular music, 1958--1981 Abstract: Between 1958 and 1981 French popular music underwent several dramatic aesthetic transformations that mirrored the upheavals created by economic reorganization during postwar reconstruction. The rapid reorientation of the French economy from its semi-agrarian character to a post-industrial service economy coincided with the beginnings of hypermodernity, a socio-cultural phenomenon marked by the fluidity of cultural meanings, a challenge to the authority of the state, and the erosion of traditional social collectives. Influenced by American rock and roll, French musicians used popular music to fashion new genres and to reinvent older ones and in the process created new social identities and communities. Operating within the cultural matrix of hypermodernization, which social collectivities were consistently undermined in favor of the importance of the individual as the primary social unit, popular music offered fleeting forms of solidarity that countered the social fragmentation characteristic of hypermodernity. |
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