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Are young people are proud

journalist Benoît Sabatier has laid a brick of 660 pages titled We are young we are proud. Subtitle Text: The youth culture of Elvis Myspace . Not very attractive, yet another book on the sociological djeunz. Except that turning over, intrigued, content, one quickly realizes that this is primarily a history of pop music, rather pleasant to read, researched and packed with references. Much more interesting.

We are young we are proud is a story of music and how young people have taken over voluntarily or not this music. The history of youth is the history of music. In parallel, by example, we follow the chaotic evolution of the two warring brothers to head the group French Taxi Girl, Darc and Mirwais , the book's title is a reference to their anthem Say it loud (Amounts are proud young ).

"He became ashamed of being old in 1984. It's new, progressive: it is better to claim his youth. The rock is the orgine this claim. History of youth culture is that of rock: in 1954 he invented the youth. " The history of youth is so closely tied to music. We can not give harm to Sabatier, who two years pin hinges. 1954, Elvis Presley singing That's allright radio. 1984, the radios become commercial radio. Into the 21st century, when the cynicism of the majors and its players more or less consenting has definitely taken over.

In very brief: Rock, punk, disco and hip-hop until 1984. Of references, will you? Blowin 'in duh. Everything is pretty simple, people discover the power of pop music, teens rebel against parents to the sound of good music is good and what is successful. The chapter on "normative year" of 1984 evokes the spirit down Canal + BD French rock baby boomers cons-culture became the cultural norm, the youth cult of youth. The after 84 sees the birth of techno's most innovative kind in 30 years. He also sees rise evil spirits who turn children into machines to consume stars, sores in machinery to consume French song dripping and culture in general, the R & B as a symbol of quality music despite a desire ultra-capitalist to become a machine with tubes.

Diving rather fascinating how the music and his audience saw her, one will be convinced, s''il were needed, that the recovery movement is now mandatory. History tirelessly sings the same old story: innovation - recovery - death by mediocrity. Finding even more bitter, the sincerity of the artists has always been caught sooner or later by the cynicism of the music industry that is decidedly his name. But the most interesting is to relive these developments, of Iggy Pop to Felix Da Housecat through the Doors and Joy Division , (re) discover all these names who made history music together in a book. Sabatier, editor, deputy chief of the magazine Technikart in a more annoying but at least achieved this.

And the final pages bring the reader to the contradictions and para-musical musical that animate the contemporary era and make a golf complex and passionate debate (even exciting for some). Who handles who decides who to, which is connected, which influences whom, who is bobo, which tastes bad, which is a faux revolutionary bloated contradictions, fluo kids Are the latest incarnation of the musical and intellectual regression ... The parable serves as an epilogue in which We are young we are proud glaring truth is, for a start (and end) response.