Outputs (14)

The singer-songwriter on stage: Reconciling the artist and the performer (2013)
Journal Article
Haworth, R. (2013). The singer-songwriter on stage: Reconciling the artist and the performer. Journal of European popular culture, 4(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc.4.1.71_1

The singer-songwriter is a ubiquitous figure within popular music. Although the name may appear to simply refer to an artist who writes and performs his or her own material, it also signifies a web of assumptions around what constitutes quality and v... Read More about The singer-songwriter on stage: Reconciling the artist and the performer.

Brassens, Brel et Ferré, ou, La mise en scène de l'authenticité dans la chanson française (2012)
Book Chapter
Haworth, R. (2012). Brassens, Brel et Ferré, ou, La mise en scène de l'authenticité dans la chanson française. In Chanson et performance: Mise en scène du corps dans la chanson française et francophone (73 - 83). L'Harmattan

Authenticity is a key preoccupation for the French popular music genre, chanson, and the figures of Brassens, Brel and Ferré are the paradigmatic 'big three' of the genre. This chapter analyses the place of performance within chanson. It takes these... Read More about Brassens, Brel et Ferré, ou, La mise en scène de l'authenticité dans la chanson française.

The stuff of legend: examining media representations of the Brassens-Brel-Ferré myths (2011)
Journal Article
Haworth, R. (2011). The stuff of legend: examining media representations of the Brassens-Brel-Ferré myths. Contemporary French civilization, 36(1-2), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2011.3

Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Léo Ferré are often grouped together and referred to as the archetypal French singer-songwriters, the 'big three' of thechanson françaisefrom the 1950s onwards. Looseley (2003) suggests that they have in fact become... Read More about The stuff of legend: examining media representations of the Brassens-Brel-Ferré myths.

Representations of 1968 in French popular music: the case of Dominique Grange (2008)
Journal Article
Haworth, R. (2008). Representations of 1968 in French popular music: the case of Dominique Grange. Modern & contemporary France / ASM & CF, 16(2), 181-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639480801975909

Focusing on the songs written during 1968–69 presented on the album L'Utopie toujours…(2004) by Dominique Grange, this article discusses some of the representations of key themes of 1968 in song. Grange is a politically engaged singer-songwriter who,... Read More about Representations of 1968 in French popular music: the case of Dominique Grange.