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Dissertation Information for Jonathyne Briggs

NAME:
- Jonathyne Briggs

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (2006)

ADVISORS:
- Kathryn E Amdur

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Judith A. Miller
- Matthew J Payne

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.

The history of French popular music also illustrates the conflation of political and cultural authority, a combination that was characteristic of the Fifth Republic and the Ministry of Culture. While popular music remained outside of the state\'s direct interest, the responses of the state to popular music show how the state attempted to reinforce traditional notions of cultural authority, which were challenged by hypermodernization.

Historians have tended to examine the postwar period of French cultural history in terms of national identity and the importance of memory. However, the study of French popular music reveals the impact of hypermodernization in effecting all forms of identity and the reaction of the French government and French musicians to this situation. Combining elements of cultural history, subcultural studies, and new musicology, this dissertation stresses the importance of popular music in uncovering the dynamic nature of contemporary French culture.

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