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Nòva Cançon
Nòva cançon (, also spelled ''Nòva chançon'' , "New Song") is a musical renewal wave that swept through Occitania in the 1970s, and continues to the present. Its leaders are Joan Pau Verdier, Claudi MartÃ, Patric, Maria Roanet and Mans de Breish, most of whom are still very active singers. Nòva cançon is a phenomenon similar to Catalonia's Nova cançó. Nòva cançon is loosely defined as a song that is promoting Occitanism and the general culture. It doesn't have a specific genre, but is usually folk or pop Pop or POP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Pop music, a musical genre Artists * POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade * Pop! (British group), a UK pop group * Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band Album ... music. Music genres {{music-genre-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occitania
Occitania is the historical region in Southern Europe where the Occitan language was historically spoken and where it is sometimes used as a second language. This cultural area roughly encompasses much of the southern third of France (except the French Basque Country and French Catalonia) as well as part of Spain ( Aran Valley), Monaco, and parts of Italy ( Occitan Valleys). Occitania has been recognized as a linguistic and cultural concept since the Middle Ages. The territory was united in Roman times as the '' Seven Provinces'' () and in the Early Middle Ages (''Aquitanica'' or the Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse, or the share of Louis the Pious following Thionville ''divisio regnorum'' in 806). Currently, the region has a population of 16 million, and between 200,000 and 800,000Fabrice BERNISSAN (2012). "Combien l'occitan compte de locuteurs en 2012 ?", ''Revue de Linguistique Romane'', 76 (12/2011-07/2012), pp. 467-512« De fait, le nombre des locuteurs de l†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Pau Verdier
Joan Pau Verdier (born Jean-Paul Verdier; 1 February 1947 – 21 June 2020) was a French singer born in Périgueux, Dordogne, who performed in both Occitan and French. He was one of the main figures of the Nòva cançon Nòva cançon (, also spelled ''Nòva chançon'' , "New Song") is a musical renewal wave that swept through Occitania in the 1970s, and continues to the present. Its leaders are Joan Pau Verdier, Claudi MartÃ, Patric, Maria Roanet and Mans de Br ..., an Occitan musical renewal wave during the 1970s. Verdier died on 21 June 2020. Discography *1973 – ''Occità nia sempre'' (LP) *1974 – ''L'exil'' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudi MartÃ
Claudi Martà (born 6 March 1940 in Carcassonne, Aude) is an Occitan singer from the Carcassonne region in Occitania Occitania is the historical region in Southern Europe where the Occitan language was historically spoken and where it is sometimes used as a second language. This cultural area roughly encompasses much of the southern third of France (except .... He was one of the main figures of Nòva cançon in the 1970s. Discography * Occità nia! (1969) * Lengadòc roge (1971) * Montsegur! (1972) * Marti (1972) * Lo paÃs que vòl viure (1973) * L'òme esper (1974) * L'an 01 (1975) * Lo camin del solelh (1976) * Monta vida (1980) * Et pourtant elle tourne... (1992) * El jinete (2002) * Ço Milhor (2006) * Tolosa (2008) Bibliography * ''Homme d'Oc'' (1974) * ''Claude Marti'' (1974) * ''Caminarem'' (1978) * ''Les petites Espagnes'' (1984) * ''Ombres et lumière'' (1998) * ''Carcassone'' (1998) * ''Corbières au cÅ“ur'' (1998) * ''Trencavel'' (1999) * ''Carcassonne au c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patric (singer)
Patric (born Patrick Martin in 1947) is an Occitan singer. He is one of the main figures of Nòva cançon, a music phenomenon promoting Occitanism. He's notable for several songs, for example his 2010 cover of the song " Bella ciao" in Occitan language. Biography At the end of the 1960s, Patric was a student in Montpellier, a pupil of Robert Lafont. Patric became one of the first to sing in Occitan, spearheading the Nòva cançon movement. He takes his first name as his stage name, since he often was confused with another Occitan singer Claudi MartÃ. His first lyrics address the themes of the Occitan claim—problems of Languedoc viticulture, youth discomfort, refusal of uprooting, and internal colonialism. Patric writes his own songs in both Occitan and French, as well as covering songs in Occitan by other singers such as LluÃs Llach and Bob Dylan. In 2012, he recorded a CD of his songs translated into Esperanto Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Roanet
Marie Rouanet (, ; born 1936 in Béziers, Hérault) is an Occitan singer and writer. Her father was a mechanic and she studied to be a school teacher. Since she was very interested in the history and the ethnography of her region, she started to write poems and songs in Occitan and was a member of the so-called ''Nova Chançon (New Song)'' along with Patric, Joan-Pau Verdier or Rosina de Pèira Rosina may refer to: *Rosina, Slovakia, a municipality in Slovakia *Rosina, Bulgaria, a village in Targovishte Municipality *Rosina, West Virginia *Rosina (given name), feminine given name *Rosina (surname) *Rosina (ship), list of ships with this na ... . She performed her wedding with Ives Roqueta in Occitan in 1978. She has released records with the company [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mans De Breish
Mans de Breish (born as Gérard Pourhomme on January 29, 1949) is a French people, French Occitan language, Occitan language singer from Carcassonne in Occitania Region, Occitanie (southern France). He was one of the main figures of Nòva cançon in the 1970s. Discography * ''Volèm viure al paÃs'' (Ventadorn, 1975) * ''Autonomia'' (Ventadorn, 1977) * ''Flor de luna'' (2000) * ''Alba d'Occità nia'' (2006) * ''La guèrra bartassièra'' (2011) * ''Ont se'n va'' (2017) References External links Mans de Breish myspace Occitan music 1949 births Living people {{france-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situated on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four Provinces of Spain, provinces or eight Vegueries of Catalonia, ''vegueries'' (regions), which are in turn divided into 43 Comarques of Catalonia, ''comarques''. The capital and largest city, Barcelona, is the second-most populous Municipalities in Spain, municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous List of metropolitan areas in Europe, urban area in the European Union. > > > ''Catalonia'' theoretically derived. During the Middle Ages, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine chroniclers claimed that ''Catalania'' derives from the local medley of Goths with Alans, initially constituting a ''Goth-Alania''. Othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Cançó
The Nova Cançó (, meaning in English "The New Song") was an artistic movement that promoted Catalan music in Francoist Spain. The movement sought to normalize use of the Catalan language in popular music and denounced the injustices in Francoist Spain. The Grup de Folk, which emerged in the same period, also promoted a new form of popular music in Catalan, drawing inspiration from contemporary American and British music. Historical context The Nova Cançó movement originated at the end of the 1950s, twenty years after the installation of the Spanish State with its repressive policies against the Catalan language and Catalan culture. The late 1950s were a period of economic and political change in Spain: Spain ended its policy of economic autarky, and Francoist Spain was admitted to the United Nations, which required the government to improve its image abroad. In this new context, at the beginning of the 1960s, new cultural projects emerged in Catalonia. In 1961, the record la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occitan Nationalism
Occitan nationalism is a social and political movement in Occitania. Nationalists seek self-determination, greater autonomy or the creation of a sovereign state of Occitania. The basis of nationalism is linguistic and cultural although currently the Occitan language is a minority status within the language area. Current affairs The Occitan political movement for self-government has existed since the beginning of the 20th century and particularly since the post-war era. Occitan nationalism emerges as a sense of grievance of Southern France caused by the economic and energy restructuring undertaken by the Gaullism, Gaullists during the 1960s, which would have given priority to the more prosperous northern regions of France. Subsequently, from 1968 one Occitan cultural revival, combined with the economic protest, given the results in 1970 in a nationalist claim that it considered Occitania was an internal colony of the French state. The movement remains negligible in electoral a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by Convention (norm), custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with popular music, commercial and art music, classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
