2024-01-29 00:00:07
THE MORNING LIST
We offer you a selection of six books on music. With texts from a former artistic programmer of the Royaumont Foundation, two works on rap, an anthology on rock in France, the memories of the musician François Bréant, a biography dedicated to the singer Curtis Mayfield.
The writings of music matchmaker Frédéric Deval
“Small Geometries of the Musical Experience”, by Frédéric Deval, Créaphis, 446 p., €15. CRÉAPHIS
Former artistic programmer at the Royaumont Foundation, a private cultural institution installed in the buildings of a former Cistercian abbey in the heart of Val-d’Oise, Frédéric Deval (1951-2016) had a musical vision. In this bucolic and majestic place, he initiated the creation in 2000 of a department dedicated to oral and improvised music, which would later evolve into a creation space around “transcultural music”. A passionate matchmaker of music, he never ceased to generate “musical experiences” audacious, creations underpinned by a constant desire to move the lines, to take musicians and those who listen to them out of their comfort zone. He had an unstoppable intuition and flair for identifying possible affinities and connections between music and songs from different backgrounds.
Published in pocket format, this posthumous work reveals his musical thoughts through a selection of his writings brought together by Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes. A summary of his last thoughts, his final questions before his death and going back to the 1980s, when before entering Royaumont, he first devoted himself with passion to flamenco, to its values and flamboyant passers-by. P. La.
A memoir book on hip-hop culture by Da Cockroach
« We Can’t Be Stopped » de Da Cockroach, Life Boom Bap and Death Editions, 348 p., 40 €. LIFE BOOM BAP AND DEATH EDITIONS
In this dense work, Pierre-Jean Cléraux, co-author of NTM, In the fever of the Supreme (editions Le Mot et le reste) complains that at the beginning of the 2000s, there were very few books in France to document hip-hop culture. Nearly twenty-five years later, after the explosion of French rap on streaming platforms and its finally deserved media exposure, this is no longer the case. This book, We Can’t be Stopped by the passionate Da Cockroach, a professional printer, is one of these most vibrant tributes.
It compiles nearly one hundred and fifty writings by activists, whether artists (rapper, beatmaker, graphic designer, DJ or dancer), directors, photographers, journalists, radio presenters or record dealers. Each one, more or less well known, from Olivier Cachin to DJ Dee Nasty via rapper Rocca, tells an anecdote, decisive moments of their passion…
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