Axis 1: GENERATIONS living together

MUSIC GENERATIONS
 In what ways can music connect generations?

Document 1: What genre of music are you? (page 1)

Document 2: Be urself’: meet the teens creating a generation gap in music Assessment:
(page 1) Prepare a scene for the school play
Document 3: Do young people know about the 70’s music? (page 2) festival. The pitch ‘convince an
Document 4: Favorite songs (page 2)
adult to listen to your favorite
Document 5 :Turn down that noise! (page 3)
artist.’

Document 1-What genre of Document 2-Be urself’: meet the teens creating a generation
music are you? gap in music
1) Listen to the recording and note down the
ALEXIS PETRIDIS, THE GUARDIAN,29 MAR 2019
styles of music mentioned.
2) Do you know any of these musical genres?
3) Which ones is your favorite? Give examples It is a disconcerting experience to look at your
of artists you know tweenage daughter’s Spotify playlists and
realise that you have never heard of any of the
artists. You may be aware of young stars who
are hitting the charts, such as Billie Eilish,
Khalid and Lauv, but what about Clairo,
KhaiDreams, Beabadoobee, GirlinRed,
Oohyo, Mxmtoon, Eli, Sundial and Conan
Gray?
………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………….
Beabadoobee – Bea Kristi – whose online success has
…………………………………………………………. now led to a record deal
…………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………… I would love to tell you that my daughter
discovered them because she is a restless
…………………………………………………………. musical adventurer, dedicated to digging out
…………………………………………………………. obscurities from the cutting edge of rock and
pop, but she isn’t. She is just doing what
…………………………………………………………. millions of other teens and tweens seem to be
………………………………………………………… doing.
………………………………………………………… You can tell from the streaming figures. Girl
in Red’s biggest tracks have been streamed
9m times, Khai Dreams’ 13m times. A video
for Clairo’s Pretty Girl has racked up more
than 30m YouTube views in the past 18
months: it consists of Clairo sitting on her bed
wearing earbuds, miming into the webcam on
her laptop while trying on a succession of
sunglasses.
These figures obviously would not give Ariana
Grande sleepless nights, but they seem
remarkable given that these artists have
virtually no media profile, no radio play, most
don’t seem to have a record deal and they
barely give interviews. […]
“I think a lot of the artists making this music
are really young,” says Josh Edwards, an
A&R1 who has been keeping a close watch: he
manages Dodie, an artist who went from
posting videos online to the Top 10. “The
music they’re making is very much online, and
there’s a feeling that if you put too much of
yourself out there on the internet it can be quite
dangerous.”
For want of a better name, you might call it
underground bedroom pop, an alternate
musical universe that feels like a manifestation
of a generation gap: big with teenagers –
particularly girls – and invisible to anyone over
the age of 20, because it exists largely in an
online world that tweens and teens find easy to
navigate, but anyone older finds baffling or
risible.
1) Look up the meaning of the eight words
in bold letters in a dictionary.
2) Read the article and pick out the media
on which music is broadcasted?
3) Find the artists mentioned in the article
and say how the author refers to them.
PAIRWORK (YET, BE READY TO
RECAP TO THE CLASS!)
Are there any artist you listen to who can
only be found on the net?

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Dans l'industrie musicale, l'A&R (abréviation d'Artists and Repertoire) est une division d'un label discographique responsable de la découverte de nouveaux artistes ou de groupes
à qui proposer un contrat.

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 MUSIC GENERATIONS

70’S MUSIC

Document 3-Do young people know about the 70’s music?

Before watching the video

1. Imagine what these young people may
say about the artists in the middle?

Now watch the video

2. Watch the video and describe the
people’s feelings. How do these reactions
compare to what you’ve imagined?
3. Note down the words and expressions
they use to describe:
• The artists
• Their music
• The lyrics PREPARE A BLIND TEST
4. Collect their answers and conclude, do - select musics from the 70s,80s, 90s or 2000s and collect
these people know about the 70’s music? information about them (dates, name of the artist, number
of records sold…)
- Submit a blind test to another group.
- Ask questions about these musics.

Document 4-Favorite songs?

Thanks to having "tweenage” daughters, I'm at least familiar with that music scene. I've seen Justin Bieber, Hannah Montana, and Katy Perry movies
[...], and I can confidently identify which one is Demi Lovato and which one is Selena Gomez. I know every lyric to every Taylor Swift song ever
written, even though I can't help but silently mock the twenty-three-year-old's appalling lack of perspective when she croons wistfully about "feeling
twenty-two." [. ..]
5 This isn't always a good thing, of course. I've been busted at the gym singing along with One Direction, and once when Joe and I were driving to L.A.
without the kids, we realized halfway there that we'd been listening to our daughters' Disney Jam CD on a continual loop. And singing along with it.
But just the other day, the girls came home from school with a magical surprise in store for me.
"Just a small-town squirrel," my youngest began singing. Of course, I recognized the tune immediately. "It's girl," I corrected her. She ignored me.
"Living in a lovely world," her sister joined in.
10 "It's lonely," I should. "Lonely world!"
They kept singing.
How do you guys know this song?" I asked, astounded.
"We learned it in music class," they informed me. "It's awesome! We love it!"
I started the next line for them. Now it was their turn to look surprised.
15 "How do you know this song?" they demanded, with insulting emphasis on the "you", I might add.
"This song was one of my favorites when I was your age," I told them, all nostalgic.
They exchanged glances, clearly debating whether or not they could continue to like the tune given this new information. Finally, they caved.
"Born and raised in self-control!" they shouted. "It's South Detroit," I interjected.
"What?" they asked this time, exasperated and annoyed at being interrupted again.

Jenna McCarthy, I’ve Still Got It…., 2014

WORK ON WORDS
1. Find the English equivalent of these words: en boucle- ont cédé-un air de musique- les paroles-stupéfaite
2. Guess what the word ‘busted’ means
3. Translate these expressions into French
- a middle-aged woman
- a twenty-year-old man
- a two-page article
- a well-known singer

4. Take notes about the characters and their relationship.

5. List the musicians mentioned and find clues about the narrator’s relationship to them.

PAIRWORK ->NOW, RECAP WHAT YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD. (100 WORDS)

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