Serge Gainsbourg S Histoire De Melody Nelson

Author : Darran Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781623565978

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Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson by Darran Anderson Pdf

Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero. An icon and iconoclast. His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes; sex, taboo, provocation, humour, exoticism and ultimately tragedy. Composed and arranged with the great Jean-Claude Vannier, its score of lush cinematic strings and proto-hip hop beats, combined with Serge's spoken-word poetry, has become remarkably influential across a vast musical spectrum; inspiring soundtracks, indie groups and electronic artists. In recent years, the album's reputation has grown from cult status to that of a modern classic with the likes of Beck, Portishead, Mike Patton, Air and Pulp paying tribute. How did the son of Jewish Russian immigrants, hounded during the Nazi Occupation, rise to such notoriety and acclaim, being celebrated by President François Mitterand as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire"? How did the early chanson singer evolve into a musical visionary incorporating samples, breakbeats and dub into his music, decades ahead of the curve? And what are the roots and legacy of a concept album about a Rolls Royce, a red-haired Lolita muse, otherworldly mansions, plane crashes and Cargo Cults?

Author : Philippe Gonin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2919296213

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Serge Gainsbourg by Philippe Gonin Pdf

Author : Gilles Verlant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0966234677

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Gainsbourg by Gilles Verlant Pdf

When Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, France went into mourning: François Mitterand himself proclaimed him "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." Gainsbourg redefined French pop, from his beginnings as cynical chansonnier and mambo-influenced jazz artist to the ironic "yé-yé" beat and lush orchestration of his 1960s work to his launching of French reggae in the 1970s to the electric funk and disco of his last albums. But mourned as much as his music was Gainsbourg the man: the self-proclaimed ugly lover of such beauties as Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin, the iconic provocateur whose heavy-breathing "Je t'aime moi non plus" was banned from airwaves throughout Europe and whose reggae version of the "Marseillais" earned him death threats from the right, and the dirty-old-boy wordsmith who could slip double-entendres about oral sex into the lyrics of a teenybopper ditty and make a crude sexual proposition to Whitney Houston on live television. Gilles Verlant's biography of Gainsbourg is the best and most authoritative in any language. Drawing from numerous interviews and their own friendship, Verlant provides a fascinating look at the inner workings of 1950s-1990s French pop culture and the conflicted and driven songwriter, actor, director and author that emerged from it: the young boy wearing a yellow star during the German Occupation; the young art student trying to woo Tolstoy's granddaughter; the musical collaborator of Petula Clark, Juliette Greco and Sly and Robbie; the seasoned composer of the Lolita of pop albums, Histoire de Melody Nelson; the cultural icon who transformed scandal and song into a new form of delirium.

Author : Sylvie Simmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Singers
ISBN : 1900924404

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Serge Gainsbourg: a Fistful of Gitanes by Sylvie Simmons Pdf

In this, the first English biography to capture Gainsbourg in all his contradiction and gleeful outrageousness, Simmons tells the fascinating story of the Gallic star. Drawing on hours of new interviews with his intimates-among them Jane Birkin, Sly & Robbie, Marianne Faithfull, and celebrated producer Philippe Lerichomme-Simmons describes in crackling prose the scope of Gainsbourg's achievement while doing full justice to his complicated emotional life. Simmons's work will stand as the definitive take on a dizzying genius.

Author : Andrew Birkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3836549972

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Jane & Serge. a Family Album by Andrew Birkin Pdf

"This album contains, in chronological order, 160 photographs taken between 1963 and 1979 by Andrew Birkin of his sister Jane Birken, Serge Gainsbourg, and their relatives."--Preliminary page.

Author : Darran Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Popular music
ISBN : 150139729X

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Histoire de Melody Nelson by Darran Anderson Pdf

Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero. An icon and iconoclast. His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes; sex, taboo, provocation, humour, exoticism and ultimately tragedy. Composed and arranged with the great Jean-Claude Vannier, its score of lush cinematic strings and p.

Author : Darran Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226470306

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Imaginary Cities by Darran Anderson Pdf

How can we understand the infinite variety of cities? Darran Anderson seems to exhaust all possibilities in this work of creative nonfiction. Drawing inspiration from Marco Polo and Italo Calvino, Anderson shows that we have much to learn about ourselves by looking not only at the cities we have built, but also at the cities we have imagined. Anderson draws on literature (Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, and James Joyce), but he also looks at architectural writings and works by the likes of Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, Medieval travel memoirs from the Middle East, mid-twentieth-century comic books, Star Trek, mythical lands such as Cockaigne, and the works of Claude Debussy. Anderson sees the visionary architecture dreamed up by architects, artists, philosophers, writers, and citizens as wedded to the egalitarian sense that cities are for everyone. He proves that we must not be locked into the structures that exclude ordinary citizens--that cities evolve and that we can have input. As he says: "If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined as well.”

Author : Serge Gainsbourg
Publisher : TamTam Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0966234618

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Evguenie Sokolov by Serge Gainsbourg Pdf

Serge Gainsbourg's sole foray into fiction, Evguenie Sokolov describes an artist who uses his intestinal gases as the medium for his scandalous artwork. What once was a smelly and noisy problem in his social and sex life becomes a recipe for success in the early 1980s art world.

Author : John Riley
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 089898890X

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The Art of Bop Drumming by John Riley Pdf

Presents the essential elements of bop drumming demonstrated through concise exercises and containing ideas to help understand what to play and how to play it and why, as well as an explanation of how the drummer functions in a group.

Author : Sylvie Simmons
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015057501911

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Serge Gainsbourg by Sylvie Simmons Pdf

The first biography in English of the priapic pop genius, drawing on new interviews to capture the debauched heart of the chain-smoking French cultural icon

Author : Laura Tunbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521896443

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The Song Cycle by Laura Tunbridge Pdf

Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --

Author : Olivier Julien,Olivier Bourderionnet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501365683

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Serge Gainsbourg by Olivier Julien,Olivier Bourderionnet Pdf

Serge Gainsbourg is arguably the Francophone songwriter whose contribution to the international appeal of French popular music has been the most significant in the post-war era. Sampled by Beck, De La Soul, Massive Attack and Fatboy Slim, remixed by Howie B. and David Holmes, translated by Mick Harvey, and covered by Iggy Pop, Donna Summer, Portishead, Madeleine Peyroux, the Pet Shop Boys and Franz Ferdinand, his music has crossed borders in a way no other modern French-language singer-songwriter's has. The interdisciplinary approach of Serge Gainsbourg: An International Perspective engages in a dialogue between musicology, film and media studies, literature, cultural studies, gender studies, and more, revealing the broad scope of Gainsbourg's impact in and outside of France, from the late 1950s through today. Bringing together a large selection of scholars from across the world, this collection of 26 chapters emphasizes his unique position in French culture, covering issues such as his musical influences and collaborations, esthetics and form, his experimentations with disciplines other than music (mainly film and literature), not to mention the conversation at play between high art and mass culture in this artist's multifaceted body of work.

Author : Robert Dimery
Publisher : Cassell Illustrated
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788403479

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die by Robert Dimery Pdf

Author : Véronique Mortaigne
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785785047

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Je t'aime by Véronique Mortaigne Pdf

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 18-22nd FEBRUARY 2019 Marking the 50-year anniversary of the legendary banned song Je t'aime... moi non plus, Véronique Mortaigne's brilliantly-written book skilfully identifies the pairing of Gainsbourg and Birkin as an expression of the spirit of the age. Synonymous with love, eroticism, glamour, music, provocation, their affair would set France aflame as the sixties ebbed, and set in motion many of the ideas we have by now come to think of as specifically 'French'. Skipping back and forth in time, Je t'aime takes the reader from the foggy Normandy landscapes where Serge and Jane retreated, to their carefree summers on the coast. En route to their superstardom in films and music, we experience their intrigues, triangular relationships, and jealous rages, the genius and the self-torture. Tenderly told, via new interviews with key players in their story, Je t'aime details the coming together of two massive personalities, who together created a model of the rebel couple for the ages.

Author : Jane Savidge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9798765106969

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Pulp's This Is Hardcore by Jane Savidge Pdf

This Is Hardcore is Pulp's cry for help. A giant, sprawling, flawed masterpiece of a record, the 1998 album manages to tackle some of the most inappropriate grown-up issues of the day – fame, ageing, mortality, drugs, and pornography – and still come out crying and laughing on the other side. The subject of pornography dominates the record – from its controversial artwork to the images conjured up by songs like "Seductive Barry" and the title track – after Pulp's main man, Jarvis Cocker – who'd spent most of his teenage and adult life chasing celebrity, only to be cruelly disappointed when it finally arrived in spades – hit upon the grand notion of using pornography as a metaphor for fame. The album's commercial failure as a follow-up to the band's Britpop-defining, Different Class, also symbolizes a death knell for Britpop itself. Dark, right? Except just like Pulp themselves, Jane Savidge's book is playful and sometimes very funny indeed. Kicking off with an imaginary conversation between Jarvis Cocker and the people who run the Total Fame Solutions helpline, Savidge expertly guides us through the trials and tribulations of an album that begins with the so-called Michael Jackson Incident, when Cocker got up on stage at the 1996 Brit Awards and waggled his fully-clothed bum at the King of Pop. Pulp's This Is Hardcore may be a sleazy run through porn and mental demise, and an album that chronicles Cocker's continuing disillusionment with his newfound lot in life, but Savidge's book assesses the cultural and historical context of the album with insider knowledge and a sharp modern lens, ultimately making a case for it as one of the most important albums of the 1990s.