Singer-Songwriter in Europe

Isabelle Marc is Lecturer at the Department of French in Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, where she teaches French language, culture and translation. She has worked extensively in the aesthetics of French popular music, covering genres such as rap and chanson, individual artists Georges Brassens, Charles Aznavour and Dominique A, and topics including identity, intertextuality and nostalgia. She has published in French, English and Spanish in journals such as French Cultural Studies, Journal of European Popular Culture, Volume. La revue des musiques populaires and IASMP Journal. Her latest research interests and publications explore nostalgia, transcultural phenomena, and cultural policy in the field of popular music and popular culture. She is co-editor of Theleme. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses and board member of IASPM Spain. Stuart Green is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at University of Leeds, UK, where he teaches and researches on the performing arts in modern Spain. He is author of From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage, a study of the influence of Hollywood on theatre in Spain. His current research explores ways in which theatre, television, cinema and music engage with the question of ethnic diversity. He has published on this area in journals such as Journal of Spanish Popular Culture and Popular Music and Society. He is member of the editorial board of journal Estreno and co-editor of Intellect journal New Cinemas.

• List of FiguresList of TablesContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: More than Words: Theorising the Singer-Songwriter - Stuart Green and Isabelle MarcPART 1: PARADIGMS‘The songs I’d write would be like that’: transnational influences between poets, composers, singer-songwriters’ - Franco FabbriPolitique des chant-auteurs: French auteur theory and Italian canzone d’autore compared - Jacopo Conti‘Words take the place of meaning’: sound, sense and politics in the music of Robert Wyatt - Richard ElliottThinking the canzone d’autore - Rachel HaworthRediscovered Sisters: women (and) singer-songwriters in Italy - Jacopo TomatisPART 2: POLITICS‘I write the songs. He’s the eye candy’: the female singer-songwriter, the woman artist-producer and the British broadsheet press - Paula WolfeIn Germany after the war: broadening the discourse on the Liedermacher - Dietmar ElfleinJudges, guitars, freedom and the mainstream: problematizing the early cantautor in Spain - Sílvia MartínezStarting over: singer-songwriters and the rhythm of historical time in post-revolutionary Portugal - Luís TrindadePART 3: PLACEThe re-invention of the French singer-songwriter in the Liberation years: Léo Ferré and the French poetic heritage in popular song - Peter HawkinsWhen Jake Met Georges: the chanson across the channel - Mark GoodallTransitions of the cantautor: aesthetics, politics and authenticity in Spanish popular music from the late Franco dictatorship to the present day - Fernán del Val and Stuart GreenA place for us? Building the sense of place in the ʻGenoese School’ of Cantautori - Alessandro Bratus and Giuseppa VultaggioWorks CitedIndex