La chanson bâtarde de Stromae et Abd al Malik : Belgique, Afrique et francophonie

International audience ; Since its beginnings, French chanson has been full of mixed musical influences. Two present-day French singers, Abd Al Malik and Stromae, preserve this tradition and renew it at the same time. While singing about ‘elsewhere’ used to be a pretext for exoticism with commercial intentions, these two singers symbolise a generation where human mixity has become a major reality, which can also be observed in their songs. When Abd Al Malik, for instance, uses the pattern and inspiration of Jacques Brel’s “Amsterdam” for his own song “Gibraltar”, he changes both meaning and dy... Mehr ...