2023-04-16 23:30:09
THE MORNING LIST
This week, we present to you a selection of seven books about music: a work devoted to Augusta Holmès, a figure of female musical creation in the 19e century ; a return, built like a thriller, rigorously documented, on the precious collection of manuscripts of Vivaldi; an essay by a philosopher trained in rap; an investigation into the city of Pont-de-Sèvres, in Boulogne-Billancourt, which saw the birth of some of the pillars of French rap; a book on one of the most important inventors in sound and electronic lutherie, Robert Moog; the account of the moral outrages of the British group the Rolling Stones; and the “Time.news of an obsession”that of our colleague François Gorin for Scott Walker.
“Boulogne. A school of French rap”, by Nicolas Rogès
In the United States, the reference book on hip-hop culture is Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, by Jeff Chang. The American journalist thus told in his first chapter how a very small piece of territory in the South Bronx of New York had given birth to a planetary culture. A chaotic district, where red brick buildings went up in smoke under the impulse of crooked owners who wanted to collect insurance, had given birth to a multidisciplinary, hyperproductive and flamboyant culture.
In his book, Nicolas Rogès tries to apply the same writing process to a French district, which is not the Bronx, but which happens to be the only working-class pocket in the middle of bourgeois neighborhoods in the Hauts- of Seine. This small perimeter, the city of Pont-de-Sèvres, in Boulogne-Billancourt, with more aesthetic curves than the ruins of the Bronx, welcomed the workers of the nearby Renault factory and their families. It has seen the birth of some of the pillars of French rap, Booba and Ali from Lunatic, Zoxea, Melopheelo and Dany Dan from Sages Poètes de la rue, Salif from IV My People, Kohndo from La Cliqua, LIM, etc. A school of French rap that has made the splits between the street rap of Booba and LIM, the poetry of Dany Dan, his use of metaphors and other figures of speech, and the memorable freestyles of Zoxea. This district was an enigma, but, with Nicolas Rogès’ book, we finally understand why there and not elsewhere. Exciting. St. B.
“Satisfaction. The Rolling Stones, a moral lesson”, by François Salaün and Lulu la Nantaise
The British bands the Beatles and the Rolling Stones are probably the ones on which the most books have been published in the world, and this from their first years of activity. Here is a new one for now about the Rolling Stones. From the first lines of Satisfaction. The Rolling Stones, a moral lesson, its author, François Salaün, sets the tone. “At 17, Brian impregnated Valerie, a teenage girl from the neighborhood. » We are in 1959, Brian is Brian Jones, future co-founder of the Rolling Stones. The kid sees only one solution, an abortion, illegal at the time.
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