French, Pop’s Forked Tongue
<p>What’s it like to be a second-class citizen in the land of pop? In this essay, originally published in Audimat 4 (2015), Agnès Gayraud, author of <em>Dialectic of Pop</em>, who as francophone songwriter-performer La Féline has just released her third album <em>Vie Future</em>, asks why English remains the unchallenged native language of pop, and how a ‘minority’ language can possibly make its mark on pop as a musical art form.</p>
Authors: Agnès Gayraud
Translators: Robin Mackay
Part of: Urbanomic Documents