Protest Music in France: Production

Barbara Lebrun traces the evolution of protest music in France since 1981, exploring the contradictions that emerge when artists who take their musical production and political commitment seriously, cross over to the mainstream, becoming profitable and consensual. The book focuses on music production in France, the representations of a protest identity in relation to discourses of national identity and examines the audiences of French protest music and considers festivals as places of non-mainstream identity negotiation.