Bill Haley

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Bill Haley as one of the figures of 1950s rock'n'roll, particularly when he comments on Michel Clouscard1. He presents him as the genre's first white star, before Presley2. In this connection he returns to the film Blackboard Jungle, whose music is Haley's, and which he describes as a moral and reactionary film3. In musical terms, he places Bill Haley among the first rock'n'roll musicians and notes that the alternation between beat and after beat still survives in his music4. He links him to the question of "sound ghettos", which he deals with in his musicosophy sessions. In 2024, he specifies that Bill Haley's first recordings open up these ghettos, and he judges them better than what comes afterwards5. Bill Haley thus serves him as a reference point for dating and describing the beginnings of rock'n'roll.

1. 1Tout est permis mais rien n'est possible - Michel Clouscard - 229 Jan 2012 · 39:04
2. 2Musicosophie 4. Les ghettos sonores3 Dec 2020 · 22:01
3. 3Tout est permis mais rien n'est possible - Michel Clouscard - 229 Jan 2012 · 49:35
4. 4Discussion entre Aliocha Allard et Dominique Pagani, 29 Mars 201726 Feb 2019 · 2:05
5. 5Clouscard par vous-même - Réponse à vos questions28 Feb 2024 · 25:07

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.