Popular Music From the North African Immigrant Community: Multiculturalism in Contemporary France, 1945–1994

Punk Beur : Popular Music, Itinerancy and Identity in Sakinna Boukhedenna’s Journal ‘Nationalité: immigré(e)’

“…However, this situation has begun change over the last decade with the publication of volumes such as The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Music, which devotes several interesting chapters to 'pop' and 'rock' music (Cook and Pople, 2004). 3 The study of popular music in modern France has benefited from the analyses of scholars such as Richard Derderian (1996), Chris Warne (1997) and David Looseley (2003). 4 Looseley's Popular Music in Contemporary France provides a fascinating study of French popular music since the nineteenth century, with particular focus on the period from the 1950s onwards.…”