David Looseley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5625487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Looseley |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Looseley |
| SIGNATURE | LOOSELEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 77 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Une passion française’
The article examines the responses to the death of singer Johnny Hallyday in December 2017, developing the analysis undertaken in my earlier article (Looseley, 2005). Hallyday’s passing and the astonishing expressions of grief and loss it generated brought to the fore the monumental importance he had assumed in French public life and public discourse at the close of his 60-year career. Despite his having initially been condemned or lampooned as a…
Imagining the Popular in Contemporary French Culture
Authenticity and appropriation
Policy and the Popular
Democratising the popular
The article represents the second phase of a comparative project on French and British cultural policy. The project's guiding hypothesis is that conceptualisations of the popular have been a crucial driver of policy change in France and Britain, raising complex issues about the nature of cultural democracy. The second phase, including this article, takes pop music as a case study for that hypothesis. The article explores three major issues. It as…
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Making an ‘impact’
This article brings together reflections on the impact agenda from two separate sources: a conference at the University of Warwick in August 2009, and a speech given at the University of Leeds some weeks before. It develops these reflections with particular reference to Modern Languages, reviewing how the Humanities probe other value systems, deal with the singular and provisional, and take discourse as their product and process in ways that offe…
Notions of popular culture in cultural policy
The Devlin and Hoyle report, Committing to culture: arts funding in France and Britain, argues that the cultural policies of these two European neighbours have been steadily converging since the mid‐1990s but that their social and economic contexts are now quite different (e.g. youth unemployment, GDP, disposable income). The paper addresses this convergence‐within‐divergence by comparing how policy discourses have conceptualised popular culture …
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Joffre Dumazedier, Toward a society of leisure
by Joffre Dumazedier, Paris, Seuil, 1962, 309 pp., paperback, ISBN 2‐02‐000604‐9 by Joffre Dumazedier/translated by S.E. McLure, New York, Free Press, 1967, 307 pp., paperback, ISBN 978‐0029076606
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The development of a social exclusion agenda in French cultural policy
The article argues that developing a social exclusion agenda has, in various guises and terminologies (‘democratization’, ‘cultural democracy’, ‘cultural development’), been the driver of French cultural policy thinking and debate since the creation of a Ministry of Culture in 1959. Addressing exclusion has in fact been a perennial problem for the French ministry, because of a founding and apparently irrepressible conviction, from Malraux in the …
Fabricating Johnny
This article takes Johnny Hallyday’s current status as a national icon as the starting point for an investigation of the relationship between popular music, authenticity and national culture in contemporary France. Public representations of Hallyday at the time of his sixtieth birthday in June 2003 were very different from those prevailing at the start of his career, when he scandalised the cultural establishment by appearing as the conduit for U…
Notions of popular culture in cultural policy
The Devlin and Hoyle report, Committing to culture: arts funding in France and Britain, argues that the cultural policies of these two European neighbours have been steadily converging since the mid‐1990s but that their social and economic contexts are now quite different (e.g. youth unemployment, GDP, disposable income). The paper addresses this convergence‐within‐divergence by comparing how policy discourses have conceptualised popular culture …
Back to the future
The article examines cultural policy in France during the third Socialist quinquennium, discussing the degree of conceptual change which took place in relation to the Ministry of Culture's two most prominent past incumbents, André Malraux and Jack Lang. It looks particularly at what positions were adopted by the Socialist Ministers of Culture Catherine Trautmann and Catherine Tasca with regard to Lang, their only Socialist predecessor. These posi…
Making an ‘impact’
This article brings together reflections on the impact agenda from two separate sources: a conference at the University of Warwick in August 2009, and a speech given at the University of Leeds some weeks before. It develops these reflections with particular reference to Modern Languages, reviewing how the Humanities probe other value systems, deal with the singular and provisional, and take discourse as their product and process in ways that offe…
Antoine Hennion and the sociology of music
The article examines the work of the sociologist of music Antoine Hennion and its relevance to cultural policy today. Beginning with a general consideration of his problematic status as an intellectual and his growing international reputation as a cultural theorist, it goes on to analyse his complex position on the music–society nexus, from which he posits the indivisibility of music and its uses. This leads him to develop a “pragmatics of taste”…
Cultural policy in the twenty-first century
Democratising the popular
The article represents the second phase of a comparative project on French and British cultural policy. The project's guiding hypothesis is that conceptualisations of the popular have been a crucial driver of policy change in France and Britain, raising complex issues about the nature of cultural democracy. The second phase, including this article, takes pop music as a case study for that hypothesis. The article explores three major issues. It as…
Conceptualising Youth Culture in Postwar France
The article discusses the meanings of youth culture, and particularly music, in contemporary France, in the light of the Ministry of Culture's adoption a quarter of a century ago of a sympathetic discourse towards it. Contrasting similarly sympathetic French sociological analyses with the seminal work undertaken in Anglophone cultural studies on subcultures, it argues that the variable nomenclature of youth culture in French public discourse is f…
The Return of the Social
This article is concerned with the social exclusion agenda in contemporary French cultural policy, exploring the relevance of aspects of postcolonial theory to an understanding of that agenda. The tensions involved in recent attempts to evolve policies addressing interculturalism, integration and “emergent” cultures (such as hip‐hop) while also staying true to the French republican tradition of universalism are illuminated by France’s problematic…
Une passion française’
The article examines the responses to the death of singer Johnny Hallyday in December 2017, developing the analysis undertaken in my earlier article (Looseley, 2005). Hallyday’s passing and the astonishing expressions of grief and loss it generated brought to the fore the monumental importance he had assumed in French public life and public discourse at the close of his 60-year career. Despite his having initially been condemned or lampooned as a…
The Bibliothèque nationale de France, suite et début
The article discusses France's new national library, the BNF, due to open in stages between 1996 and 1997. It begins by completing an earlier account, published in Modern & Contemporary France, of the Library's inception, and in particular of the controversy to which it gave rise. It goes on to describe the BNF's appearance, facilities and internal organisation as they stood shortly before opening. It then examines the three theoretical principle…
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Jack Lang and the politics of festival
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French Cultural Studies will be pleased to announce in the Notice-board forthcoming events or other items involving all aspects of modern French culture. Please contact Dr D. L. Looseley, Department of Modern Languages, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, West Yorkshire
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French Cultural Studies will be pleased to announce in the Notice-board forthcoming events or other items involving all aspects of modern French culture. Please contact Dr D. L. Looseley, Department of Modern Languages, Universityof Bradford, Bradford, BD71DP, West Yorkshire
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iFrench Cultural Studies will be pleased to announce in the Notice-board forthcoming events involving all aspects of modern French culture. Please contact Dr D. L. Looseley, Department of Modern Languages, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, West Yorkshire
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French Cultural Studies will be pleased to announce in the Notice-board forthcoming events involving all aspects of modern French culture. Please contact Dr D. L. Looseley, Department of French, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, West Yorkshire
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The Politics of Fun
The Precursors: The Popular Front, Vichy and the Liberation Heritage, Creation, Democratisation: The Malraux Years From Malraux to Mitterrand: Creation and Creativity Culture and the Economy Policies for High Culture Beyond High Culture: Pluralism and le tout-culturel A Certain Idea of the City: The Presidential Grands Projects Lang and the Politics of Fun: Politicising the Cultural Debate, 1985-88 Popularising the Past: Lang et Leotard, Meme Com…
The Bibliothèque nationale de France, suite et début
The article discusses France's new national library, the BNF, due to open in stages between 1996 and 1997. It begins by completing an earlier account, published in Modern & Contemporary France, of the Library's inception, and in particular of the controversy to which it gave rise. It goes on to describe the BNF's appearance, facilities and internal organisation as they stood shortly before opening. It then examines the three theoretical principle…
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Cultural policy in the twenty-first century
Facing the music
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French Cultural Studies will be pleased to announce in the Notice-board forthcoming events, and a small number of recent books, involving all aspects of modern French culture. Please contact Dr D. L. Looseley, Department of French, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, West Yorkshire. E-mail: [email protected]
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