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In 2006, a young female rapper named Diam's released an album that became the best-selling CD in France: her CD and its reception is treated as a social phenomenon and examined against the backdrop of political arguments which developed in France in 2006-2007. Musical analysis shows that the sonic backgrounds of Diam's rap illustrated the importance of combinations and hard work in the symbolical production of a new order. Her texts manifested new combinations of social values which brought into the public debate changes in value systems that were just becoming developed enough to be taken up by political organisations and leaders. This is why the main themes in Diam's CD converged with topics engaged by the two main candidates in the French 2007 presidential election. This paper, combining the resources of musicology, literary analysis and political sociology analyses how Diam's put in aesthetic and emotional forms combinations of values that had been brewing underground for the past 30 years. It invites a reconsideration of the interpretation of rap as an expression of rebellion, or even as an element of counter-culture, and apprehends it as a 'social revealer' that brings new values and representations into public debate and stimulates discussion around them. Diam's album was an 'unidentified political object' that shed original light on the way politics and politician are perceived by ordinary citizens, or specific groups among them, such as the youth.In 2006, a young French female rapper known as Diam's 1 released a CD titled Dans ma bulle (In my bubble) which sold more than any other CD in France that year. More than 800,000 copies of Dans ma bulle were bought not only by rap fans but also by buyers -most of them in their teens or twenties -who listened to R and B, soul music, chanson française (French song) and other musical genres.Dans ma bulle was not Diam's debut album. She had already released several CD singles and albums and had made a name for herself in the world of French rap. Diam's started rapping when she was in her teens; she dropped out of school and struggled to become one of the few accepted female MCs in 1 Mélanie Georgyades chose Diam's as her rap name not, she says, because 'Diamonds are a girl's best friend', but because diamonds are so hard that they can only be scratched or broken by other diamonds.
In 2006, a young female rapper named Diam's released an album that became the best-selling CD in France: her CD and its reception is treated as a social phenomenon and examined against the backdrop of political arguments which developed in France in 2006-2007. Musical analysis shows that the sonic backgrounds of Diam's rap illustrated the importance of combinations and hard work in the symbolical production of a new order. Her texts manifested new combinations of social values which brought into the public debate changes in value systems that were just becoming developed enough to be taken up by political organisations and leaders. This is why the main themes in Diam's CD converged with topics engaged by the two main candidates in the French 2007 presidential election. This paper, combining the resources of musicology, literary analysis and political sociology analyses how Diam's put in aesthetic and emotional forms combinations of values that had been brewing underground for the past 30 years. It invites a reconsideration of the interpretation of rap as an expression of rebellion, or even as an element of counter-culture, and apprehends it as a 'social revealer' that brings new values and representations into public debate and stimulates discussion around them. Diam's album was an 'unidentified political object' that shed original light on the way politics and politician are perceived by ordinary citizens, or specific groups among them, such as the youth.In 2006, a young French female rapper known as Diam's 1 released a CD titled Dans ma bulle (In my bubble) which sold more than any other CD in France that year. More than 800,000 copies of Dans ma bulle were bought not only by rap fans but also by buyers -most of them in their teens or twenties -who listened to R and B, soul music, chanson française (French song) and other musical genres.Dans ma bulle was not Diam's debut album. She had already released several CD singles and albums and had made a name for herself in the world of French rap. Diam's started rapping when she was in her teens; she dropped out of school and struggled to become one of the few accepted female MCs in 1 Mélanie Georgyades chose Diam's as her rap name not, she says, because 'Diamonds are a girl's best friend', but because diamonds are so hard that they can only be scratched or broken by other diamonds.
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