Gilles Tordjman (born 31 August 1962 in

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) is a French

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

, journalist and literary critic.

Biography

After graduating with a master's degree in philosophy in 1984, he wrote for ''

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'' and '' L'Express'' before joining ''

Les Inrockuptibles ''Les Inrockuptibles'' () is a French cultural magazine. Started as a monthly magazine in 1986, it became weekly in 1995. Now it is a monthly again, since 2021. In the beginning, rock and roll, rock music was the magazine's primary focus, though ...

'' in 1992 where he was an editorial writer for five years. In April 1997, Gilles Tordjman left ''Les Inrockuptibles'' following a polemic in the editorial office about Michel Bounan's book, ''L'Art de

Céline Céline, sometimes spelled Celine, is a French female first name of Latin origin, coming from ''Caelīna'', the feminine form of the Roman cognomen ''Caelīnus'', meaning "heavenly".

et son temps'' which he had defended. He then joined '' L'Événement du jeudi''. Subsequently, Gilles Tordjman also wrote in ', ''

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'', '' Jazz Magazine'', ''Épok'', ''

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'' , ''

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,'' ''Vibrations,'' '' Mouvement,'' and on artnet.fr. Gilles Tordjman wrote books devoted to Duke Ellington and

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

as well as numerous articles about

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

musicians, notably

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, Chet Baker, Eric Dolphy and

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. He is also a literary critic, particularly interested in

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, ,

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, , Guy Debord and also

Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and ...

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and Baltasar Gracián to whom Gilles Tordjman devoted long articles or postfaces when their works were reissued. In 2012, he published an article against

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in the special issue of ''

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'' devoted to the American singer.

Quote

Back cover of ''C'est déjà tout de suite'', Céra-nrs Éditions, 1998

Bibliography

*2006: ''Leonard Cohen'', *1998: ''C'est déjà tout de suite'', preface by

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, Céra-nrs éditions (collection of chronics published in ''les Inrockuptibles''.) *1994: ''Duke Ellington'', in collaboration with François Billard,

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Prefaces, postfaces

*2006: Philippe Robert, ''Rock, pop'', éd. Le Mot et le reste *1997: Baltasar Gracián, ''L'Homme de cour'', . *1996:

, ''Ultimatum'', Mille et une nuits *1996:

, ''

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'', Mille et une nuits *1995:

Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dubl ...

, ''

A Modest Proposal ''A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick'', commonly referred to as ''A Modest Proposal'', is a Juvenalian satirical essay wr ...

'', Mille et une nuits

Translations

*2014:

Tarquin Hall Tarquin Hall is an English writer and journalist. He was born in London, in 1969, to an English father and American mother. Hall has spent much of his adult life away from England, living in the United States, Pakistan, India, Kenya and Turkey, a ...

, ''Les Aventures d'un bébé journaliste'', translated from English, Globe *2013:

Steven Levy Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist and Editor at Large for ''Wired'' who has written extensively for publications on computers, technology, cryptography, the internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. He is the author of the 1984 book ...

, ''L'Éthique des

hackers A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means. Though the term ''hacker'' has become associated in popu ...

'', translated from English, Globe *2000:

Norman Cohn Norman Rufus Colin Cohn FBA (12 January 1915 – 31 July 2007) was a British academic, historian and writer who spent 14 years as a professorial fellow and as Astor-Wolfson Professor at the University of Sussex. Life Cohn was born in London, to ...

, ''Cosmos, chaos et le monde qui vient'', translated from English, *1990: Stan Motjuwadi and David Bristow, ''Soweto'', preface by

Johnny Clegg Jonathan Paul Clegg, (7 June 195316 July 2019) was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist, some of whose work was in musicology focused on the music of indigenous South African people ...

, translated from English,

References

External links

Présentation du livre sur Leonard Cohen on the site of the publisher

Debord et l'honneur de l'imprécation, article published in Libération in December 1994

* [https://archive.today/20121202071558/http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.viewcustom&friendId=65497270&blogId=245406600&swapped=true L'autisme critique, article published in ''Vibrations'' in 2004]
Le MP3 mutile le son et l'audition, article published in Le Monde 2 29 August 2008

Open letter to Laurent Joffrin in February 2009 on mediapart.fr

Jacques-Alain Léger : pas d'autre vie que la sienne, article published in August on 2013 larepubliquedeslivres.com

Gilles Tordjman as a jewish crooner

''Leonard Cohen, un art de la guerre''
(intervention in the symposium ''L'âme juive de Leonard Cohen'', Institut européen Emmanuel Levinas, 2014) {{DEFAULTSORT:Tordjman, Gilles 20th-century French journalists 21st-century French journalists Jazz writers French music critics 20th-century French musicologists 21st-century French musicologists French literary critics English–French translators Writers from Paris 1962 births Living people