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	NI on-line shop :: Australia :: Music - French Cafe
		Indeed, the history of French music is inextricably linked to the cafes and music halls where popular music styles like musette and chanson were originally performed.
		In the late 1950s and early ‘60s, French music was greatly impacted by American and British rock and roll and pop music.
		The music on French Café unites musicians of an earlier age with contemporary artists who draw on the sound of the past as inspirat ion to create a style that is both nostalgic and progressive.
	www.newint.com /catalog/cafe.htm (493 words)

	Cajun Music
		Suffice it to say they are all seminal figures in Louisiana French musical culture, and their combined influence and guidance has made these three musicians into the powerhouses they are today.
		The later 1950s was another bust time for older styles of Cajun music, as producers moved on to record swamp-pop music, rock and roll performed in many cases by the sons of Cajun musicians.
		Most identifiably Cajun musical features, such as the use of drones and double-stops to back up the melody on fiddle, are absent.
	www.dirtynelson.com /linen/feature/60cajun.html (3290 words)

	BUREAU EXPORT - The French Music Export Offices
		From her first actress part in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up“ and her long lasting private and artistic affair with the French pop idol Serge Gainsbourg to the collaboration with the Algerian musician Djamel Benyelles, Jane Birkin has always met the right persons in the right place at the right time.
		Both concerts are organized with the support of AFAA, the French Embassy and the French Music Export Office.
		As with her previous two albums, “Une Saison Volée” will doubtless sound impossibly exotic to the non-French speaking Englishman, with Breut’s sultry and sexy vocals again transporting the listener on a cinematic journey throughout.
	www.french-music.org /scr_home.php (447 words)

	French rock music
		French music was greatly impacted by American and British rock and roll and pop...
		French composer of music for organ and a member of a family of distinguished organists...
		His mark on French music is legendary for being one of the first to...
	www.factorydatabase.com /french+rock+music.html (1056 words)

	Cajun Music: Cajuns: Music: Cajun French
		By the 1930s, changes in Cajun music reflected the growing impact of the Americanization of the Cajuns, a process that included a serious attempt to eradicate the society's native French language and denigrate their culture, fueled by the nationalism that accompanied World War I and the Great Depression.
		In the 1950s, the emergence of rock and roll and country music once again attracted young Cajun musicians away from their traditional roots to perform what came to be called swamp pop.
		The turn of the twentieth century was a formative period in the development of Louisiana French music, largely because commercial recording companies began producing records of Cajun music in 1928.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /Cajun_Music.html (832 words)

	French Music Reviews
		With their melodious light pop and weightlessness of voice, French band Luke offers a very polished first album with La Vie Presque, a work of surprising maturity equal to their English counterparts.
		A great CD of French chansons and gypsy jazz that meets the needs of an American generation starved for culture and malnourished on the frothy but empty pseudo coffee culture of Starbucks.
		Apparently this musical hobo has abandoned introspective lyrics for the time being in favor of the pleasures of marijuana and radio station samples.
	www.plume-noire.com /music/releases/french.html (472 words)

	French culture music : Bastille Day 2001
		She draws from her native Tunisian culture to create compelling music with influences from French song to Western pop.
		Their music is influenced by traditional Irish and American songs as well as the old, realistic French "chanson".
		Lo'Jo are a French unit of sonic flaneurs evoking gypsy mountain caravans, Parisian cafes and hot eurojazz oases with searing mod intensity.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/music/events/01bastilleday.html (1945 words)

	BBC News MUSIC The return of French pop music
		The British have always been resistant to music not sung in English, and many French songs which have made it in the UK have done so in translation.
		Fortunately there are plenty of contemporary French acts who still work in the French language and use indigenous musical influences - Noir Désir, rapper MC Solaar and the intriguing Gotan Project among them.
		France's rich musical culture has never made much impression on this side of the channel - and the music which has, has tended to be romantic chanson or the occasional piece of saucy exotica, such as Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus, a number one hit in 1969.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/1721450.stm (759 words)

	Louisiana French Music
		The project traces the development of Cajun music from its French Acadian and Anglo-Saxon roots to swamp pop and the Cajun revival; and it explores the African and Caribbean tradition, from la musique Creole to zydeco.
		As Louisiana French musicians began to adapt the old music, some of the most influential musicians were black Creoles who introduced blues elements in Cajun songs.
		Acadian music derives from two types of music from medieval France: instrumental music meant for dancing and ballads sung a capella to tell a story.
	www.loc.gov /bicentennial/propage/LA/la-07_h_chris1.html (521 words)

	Flat Town Music Company Web Store
		In addition to the traditional-style Cajun music which is their forte, they also wanted to include a share of Zydeco and South Louisiana "Swamp Pop" music to provide an accurate taste of what Les Amis de la Louisiane is all about.
		Recently signed Swallow recording artist, Dennis Stroughmatt and Creole Stomp is a nationally touring Creole, Cajun, and Zydeco band bringing the best in Louisiana French music and culture to audiences of listeners and dancers across the USA and Canada.
		Flat Town Music Company would like to congratulate Jackie Caillier, Ivy Dugas and the Cajun Cousins for their recent success at the 2005 CFMA Le Cajun Awards which were held on August 19th, 20th, and 21st at the Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette, Louisiana.
	www.flattownmusic.com (2024 words)

	Slipcue E-Zine: French Pop Music Guide - Main Index
		The French Music Database is an American-generated site which includes entries for over a hundred artists, ranging from expatriate jazz legend, Josephine Baker, to ye-yesingers and numerous chanson artists such as Edith Piaf, Jean Sablon, Jacques Brel, et al., as well as contemporary rock and pop musicians.
		Pink Frankenstein, a self-described "French fry" (and a fellow KALX dj), has been at this French pop thing for quite some time, and has a beautiful website devoted to ye-ye and more modern stuff, too.
		Disc-O-Logue is a mammoth undertaking by someone at the National Library of Canada, which tries to keep track of French Canada's prodigious musical output.
	www.slipcue.com /music/pop/france/froghop.html (490 words)

	France Gall Discography -- Slipcue.Com French Pop guide
		She sounds way pre-pubescent on this disc, and the arrangements by Alain Goraguer are mostly standard issue French pop.
		An adorably mousy-voiced singer, teenager France Gall topped the French pop charts in the early '60s, and racked up crossover success in the UK as well.
		Her career was all pretty prefab, with pop Svengali, Serge Gainsbourg, providing songs such as "Baby Pop" which emphasized a salacious "baby girl" jailbait undertone.
	www.slipcue.com /music/pop/france/gall.html (501 words)

	Slipcue E-Zine: French Pop Music Guide - Main Index
		The French Music Database is an American-generated site which includes entries for over a hundred artists, ranging from expatriate jazz legend, Josephine Baker, to ye-yesingers and numerous chanson artists such as Edith Piaf, Jean Sablon, Jacques Brel, et al., as well as contemporary rock and pop musicians.
		So, submitted for your approval, here are some of the movers and shakers in French pop music, past and present.
		Disc-O-Logue is a mammoth undertaking by someone at the National Library of Canada, which tries to keep track of French Canada's prodigious musical output.
	www.slipcue.com /music/pop/france/froghop.html (490 words)

	Cuisine Non-Stop by Richard Byrne - The Globalist > > Global Music
		A new compilation of French pop music proves that this nation is looking to its musical past to give flair to its contemporary culture.
		French musicians of this period were attuned to sounds of the globe — including jazz, samba and rock 'n' roll.
		So it is not surprising that a new wave of French musicians — writing and performing 30 years later — have decided to have another look at the music of the immediate post-war period.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2850 (1023 words)

	French Pop Music
		A new compilation of French pop music proves that this nation is looking to its musical past to give flair to its contemporary culture.
		French singing star Gilbert Becaud may have died but French pop music is having a resurgence in the UK.
		The musical realization of the album is done now, it was a hard and long work but it was worth it !
	french-pop-misic.blogspot.com (2832 words)

	RTE 2FM - Irish national pop music station online
		The music is generally inventive, bringing electronic aspects to the classic indie template.
		The opener, 'Porn Shoes', is typical, a tale of awkward dating among thirty-somethings unfolds with a list of spot-on references to brands and celebrities set to a chiming background music that gentling parodies the classic dinner party soundtrack.
		The French are a self-consciously literary band, and Darren Hayman's pointed dissections of modern life are direct descendants of Morrissey and Jarvis Cocker's tiny tragedies.
	www.rte.ie /2fm/music/thefrench.html (309 words)

	Midnight Eye links
		Beautifully designed French site covering all aspects of modern Japanese culture, from manga to pop music, through cinema and video games too.
		Contrary to what the title implies, this is not a site about Japanese pop music, but a very useful portal to Japanese cinema-related sites on the web.
		The site of the government-sponsored Unijapan organisation will be extremely useful for anyone looking for facts, data and figures on Japanese films, plus addresses and more.
	www.midnighteye.com /links/index.shtml (1311 words)

	French Polynesia Chat
		Music Chat Chat about Rock, Pop, RandB, Alternative, Techno, Dance, or any kinds of music.
		French Polynesia Chat is the place where chatters from French Polynesia come to chat with anyone from anywhere around the world.
		We are seeking people from French Polynesia like you to join our chat to make our chat room filled with people from everywhere.
	www.weirdtown.com /find/chat/where/french_polynesia_chat.jsp (1311 words)

	Day 1: Amana Nature Reserve, French Guiana
		We finally climb into our hammocks around 11:00 pm and as I toss and turn to get comfortable I can still hear the blaring pop music from the endless party we left around 5:00 pm.
		We are traveling to French Guiana for the sea turtles, but I figure I can sneak in some goat cheese and baguettes along the way.
		He is the only local person who has been involved in sea turtle conservation in French Guiana since it started in the 1970s and currently sits on the board of Kululasi, a local Amerindian sea turtle conservation organization.
	www.wwfint.com /about_wwf/where_we_work/latin_america_and_caribbean/where/guianas/turtles/journal_1.cfm (782 words)

	French Culture Music Central Park Summerstage 2002
		The Super Rail Band from Mali thrive with their rich mix of Afro-Cuban dance music, pop and the West African sounds of Mali and Guinea.
		She was orphaned at an early age and as a young woman, made her daily bread by working as a dancer with a group of cheiks who performed rural music in the streets of Oran.
		P18 is the Parisian groove collective that mixes the gamut of Cuban music with Euro dance culture to create a moving urban Latin sound.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/02summerstage.html (548 words)

	Free Music Downloads ♫ Free MP3s - EZ-Tracks!
		The music industry's newest scheme to maximize profits is bound.
		50 Cent has secured new music from Mase, Nate Dogg, Mobb Deep and M.O.P. for the soundtrack to his upcoming biographic film, "Get Rich or Die Tryin'." The album is due Nov. 8 via G Unit/Interscope and...
		Beyonce Knowles has been thrust into a magazine cover color war in America after a new pop culture publication claimed her skin had been lightened for the cover of style bible Vanity Fair.
	www.EZ-Tracks.com (411 words)

	Folksy Links - Folk Bands and Musicians On Line
		Red Cardell's original idea was to blend Breton music, punk rock and French realistic songs, these being their early influences but other styles such as Electro, Eastern Europe, South American and North African eventually crept into the general sound.
		Ur'ia, the crossroad of the modern (underground, rock music, brit-pop, fusion, break-beat, r'n'b) and ancient cultures of many peoples is the musical conception of this project.
		Churchfitters, their energetic and festive show unites the rythms of rock and pop with the universal appeal of traditional music.
	www.folksylinks.it /folksy_b.html (4372 words)

	Music Sound politics
		Variété — which is the word the French use for pop music in general, excluding rock and jazz — is, of all the genres that flourish in the so called First World nations, uniquely French.
		Anyone who knows me knows that I am a lover of French variété — the pop-music genre specific to France, and as unlike the rock music of the US and UK as France’s politics are unlike ours.
		The Velvet Underground, who themselves were influenced by French variété, have fed the music, as have disco, movie music and show tunes, and even Delta blues.
	bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/02900958.htm (1640 words)

	Black, Blanc, Beur (Scarecrow Press, Inc.)
		A wonderful resource for scholars and students of African, French and pop culture, ethnomusicology, and for the general public interested in rap music and the hip-hop culture.
		Contributors discuss the history of French rap music from its origin to the present, the various artists and their groups, stage performances of the rap groups in Paris, Marseilles, the art of graffiti, and the French public's perceptions of rap music.
		In addition to a foreword by Adam Krims, a noted rap authority, this volume has contributions by some of the most renowned hip-hop scholars on both sides of the Atlantic and addresses hip-hop from the perspective of various disciplines: African studies, anthropology, cultural studies, ethnology, French and Francophone studies, history, linguistics, musicology, psychology, and sociology.
	www.uri.edu /artsci/ml/durand/Book.html (328 words)

	Luke Vibert : Nuggets: Luke Vibert's Selection - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The steady French diet of electronics, musique concrète, avant-garde jazz, and yeh-yeh pop made for hundreds of alternately groovy, experimental, or funky recordings, released in limited editions of 200 to 500 and promptly forgotten.
		French library music hit its artistic peak during the early '70s, when a British musician's union dispute shifted the focus of "music on any theme" across the channel.
		Nuggets, basically the work of three composers -- Roger Roger, Nino Nardini, and Eddie Warner -- includes nearly 30 tracks, most one- or two-minute snippets of crazed theme music, many of them sounding far more intrusive than background music should.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1484578,00.html (328 words)

	The Japan Times Online
		At that time, music in record stores was only divided into two groups: Japanese pops and international music.
		He was also interested in me as a Japanese composer, about how a Japanese composer can make music like a Brazilian but a Brazilian cannot make music like a Japanese.
		French, Italian and Japanese cooking are all concerned about how to keep the freshness of the ingredients.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fm20030924a1.htm (2253 words)

	Radio Phnom Penh - Radio Phnom Penh Review
		This is not music heard wrong, like much of French pop.
		What surprises with repeated listening is that Cambodian pop music is a fully formed genre that barely anyone has heard, but need to know.
		What surprises is the degree of confidence and savvy in the music; this is not pop music that is a lame imitation of Western music.
	www.musicemissions.com /display_review/3000 (208 words)

	BUREAU EXPORT - BERLIN
		The French car manufacturer Peugeot was sponsor of the Popkomm 2005 edition, being a great partner for the French Music Export Office.
		The concept is still the same: two of the leading french live artists of the ongoing french music scene and the Le Pop“-DJ-Set are creating a very special evening.
		From her first actress part in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up“ and her long lasting private and artistic affair with the French pop idol Serge Gainsbourg to the collaboration with the Algerian musician Djamel Benyelles, Jane Birkin has always met the right persons in the right place at the right time.
	www.french-music.org /tpl_home_berlin.php (793 words)

	Cajun Bobby Richard
		My Favorite Links Which Include Cajun French music, Swamp Pop Music and the Artists
		My Swamp Pop show is on Saturday mornings from 5 am to 12 noon and my Cajun French show is on Sunday mornings from 6 am till 9 am.
		I hope you tune in for the best of both music.
	www.bobbyrichard.com (270 words)

	Cajun Music: Cajuns: Music: Cajun French
		By the 1930s, changes in Cajun music reflected the growing impact of the Americanization of the Cajuns, a process that included a serious attempt to eradicate the society's native French language and denigrate their culture, fueled by the nationalism that accompanied World War I and the Great Depression.
		In the 1950s, the emergence of rock and roll and country music once again attracted young Cajun musicians away from their traditional roots to perform what came to be called swamp pop.
		When they began to acquire instruments, they chose the familiar and popular fiddle and developed techniques, such as a self-accompanying drone, to approximate the sounds in their collective memory from their western French origins which had included flutes and pipes, and they played ancient tunes that had been preserved by humming and whistling.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /Cajun_Music.html (832 words)

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