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Series · 5 Aug 2023Aragon, “The Paris Peasant Sings”

23:31"Vulgar" comes from the Latin vulgus and means popular, like "folk." The vulgar and sweet song is the popular song.

Series · 3 Dec 2020#3 What is called modern music?

8:35People is the negation of populaire; Volk mixes nation and people and can slide toward völkisch.
50:54Popular musics not yet folklorized keep the musician a social function.
1:30:31The modern risks being deadly when it definitively cuts itself off from popular listening.