Posts Tagged ‘French poetry’
French Pop part 2
November 21, 2010
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Following on from the article about the new French radio station in London, here are a couple of the modern artists they recommend (although they do sing in English and sometimes not at all…), namely Phoenix and Air.
Strange Random France Quote:
“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.” – Guillaume Apollinaire (French Poet and Critic who helped to direct poetry into unexplored channels, 1880-1918)
Related articles
- French melody (bbc.co.uk)
- UK’s French expats to get local radio station (newstatesman.com)
- William Stafford, Rimbaud & the Poet as an Embarrassed Young Man (seapoetry.wordpress.com)
- VIDEO: Daft Punk joins Phoenix on stage, seems totally pointless/lame (hipsterrunoff.com)
- French Fear ‘Brain Drain’ to the U.S. (nytimes.com)
- Supermarket French, Chanson French, and Lyrical Arabic (theworld.org)
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English language, France, French poetry, Guillaume Apollinaire, London, Phoenix, Phoenix Arizona, Radio broadcasting