Urban Culture

Qu’est-ce que la France? Images of French identity through music

May 24, 2011
By Rachel
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Throughout a course on 20th-century and contemporary France, I’ve been incorporating popular songs into our analysis of what it means to be French, from the post-war period to the present day. I’ve used music in a variety of ways: comparing two songs from the same period, or from vastly different periods (1945 and 1975,...Read more »

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Le Parkour

June 10, 2010
By Rachel
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Online Sources: Interview with David Belle, Parkour’s inventor, on ParkourFrance Parkour Blog with an article about David Belle you can download New Yorker article on Parkour from 2007Read more »

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