7 décembre 2010
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Delphine Houbron, « L'embellie du lieu commun chez Francis Cabrel et Yves Duteil », HAL-SHS : littérature, ID : 10670/1.qfot61
The common characteristic features of Francis Cabrel and Yves Duteil’s work can be found in their articulation between popular success and dynamic creativity. They may be sensitive to modern times but this feeling is kept in a balance with their concern for authenticity related to the movements of classical tradition. Reading between the lines of their songs reveals a diffuse tradition coming from no precise origin, a collective oral knowledge, a universal intimate feeling. Their songs are drawn from an acoustic origin and deal with essential values fitting in a conventional system. They are tackled with authenticity, humanism and simplicity. The two singers are popular because they can have their songs originating in traditional common places and also allow their listeners to join in actively. Topos paradoxally becoming originality means beautifying for them. My process concerns cantology, a discipline founded by Stéphane Hirschi who considers song as a specific genre. My work consists in an esthetical analysis of the way in which Francis Cabrel and Yves Duteil’s works are received in their contexts and integrally. I consider them as a whole, taking into account the lyrics, the music and the performance. An interdisciplinary study combining the viewpoints of sociology, history, stylistics, esthetics, musicology and receptive esthetics can point out the esthetic interests of these neo-classical songs within the field of present-day creation. Francis Cabrel and Yves Duteil’s creation within a generation marking the renewal of classical French song, can be defined by a new use of common places involving a change and the dynamic creation of a new way of relating the various elements.