Manon Fabre

Etudiante

Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris

FR

Biography

Manon Fabre is a recent graduate of the Music History and Aesthetics classes at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, and a student attached to the Arts department at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. She divides her research activities between the French jazz scene of the interwar period and the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, to whom she dedicated a master's thesis at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Articles (1)

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Ray Ventura and His Collegians: from imitation to a Franco-American hybrid

In the early 1930s, Ray Ventura and His Collegians recorded in Paris covers of hit songs from Hollywood movies and of original compositions that straddled jazz and the French chanson. They elucidate the phenomenon of Americanization.