Ray Ventura, jazz and French chanson: an ambiguous Americanization
In the 1930s, Ray Ventura and his Collégiens established themselves as a model of French chanson,...
Pierre Fargeton
Maitre de conférences
Biography
Pierre FARGETON is a lecturer in musicology at the Université Jean-Monnet (Saint-Étienne). A researcher at IHRIM, he has worked on jazz criticism in France (André Hodeir, Hugues Panassié, notably), produced articles and books on musical analysis (on Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, André Hodeir), co-edited several correspondence letters (Hodeir-Panassié, Barraqué-Hodeir) and co-curated several collective works on jazz.