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art populaire

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Season 8 · 17 Jul 2020#14 • Return to the logics of the subject

38:34In France, court art turned the popular into folklore; at Europe's peripheries it remains alive, while pop music has destroyed popular musics.
1:31:19It does not provoke, calls for recognition in both directions, and bears the social shame of being the art of the poor.

Talks · 20 Jul 2018Education: can the Beautiful be learned?

1:21:33Everything begins with popular art: Lascaux, griots, bards, the oral poetry of grandmothers.
1:24:24Popular music expresses the soul of a given people, like a flower on its own soil; global pop music has killed it.