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French popular music

French popular music is a music of France belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. It stands in contrast to French

Further reading#

  • Coulomb, Sylvie, and Didier Varrod (1987). Histoire de chansons, 1968-1988: de Julien Clerc à Didier Varrod. Paris : Éditions Balland. 383 p., profusely ill., chiefly with b&w photos.
  • Lipsik, Frank (1977). Dicionnaire des variétés, de A à Z: la vie et les tubes i.e., disques de 45 t.p.m. : de toutes vos vedettes. S.l. : Éditions Mengès. 188 p., ill. with b&w photos.
  • Moulin, Jean-Pierre (text), and Yvan Dalain (photographer)(1962). J’aime le music-hall. Lausanne: Éditions Rencontre. 205 obl. p., profusely ill. with b&w photos. N.B.: Photo-documentary of the music hall phenomenon, mostly in Francophone Europe.
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