From Django Reinhardt and dith Piaf to Franoise Hardy and Serge Gainsbourg, French pop has long fascinated the outside world. This book, the first indepth history published outside France, travels from music halls, jazz cellars and cafs to discothques and teenage parties to tell the tale of how the French transitioned from accordions to electric guitars, from Maurice Chevalier to Johnny Hallyday, from the existential angst of Left Bank chanson to the effervescent joy of yy. Across dozens of performers from Sacha Distel to Sylvie Vartan, and hundreds of recordings, this is the story of how the French fused their native traditions with the best the world had to offer tango, jazz, swing, exotica, rocknroll and folk and emerged in the sixties with their own unique and much loved spin on the pop music conquering the world.

Binding: Paperback;542 pages; Publisher: Music Mentor Books; Classification: AVGN; Weight: 1054 g; Dimensions: 157 x 235 x 38

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