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100	1	0	_aPinet, Guillaume _eauthor
245	0	0	_aA peaceful story of intellectual concern
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520			_aWithin the context of the French Communist Party’s political and cultural aggiornamento, as well as of a reorientation of its youth movement’s propaganda towards mass culture, the communist press created in 1958 the Relais de la chanson française, a musical talent show meant to promote young singers and attract the young masses to the unions of French Communist Youth. The initiative was paradoxical: it recycled traditional structures of communist mobilization, while imitating commercial practices; it aimed at fighting against the deleterious influence of the cultural and media industries but depended upon them for its success; it promoted a legitimist, poetic conception of chanson française, while more and more young music lovers turned to new musical fads. These contradictions fed the disinvestment of orthopraxic militants, who aspired to a purer, more political form of activism: though the Relais de la chanson did help several singers to make a breakthrough, their militant and organizational failure announced the Communist Youth’s shift to a more politicized conception of its propaganda from the mid-1960s on.
786	0		_nRevue d’histoire moderne & contemporaine | 71-1 | 1 | 2024-03-12 | p. 156-164 | 0048-8003
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