Street Musicians of Paris: Evolution of an Image

Florence Gétreau (1)

1 IRPMF - Institut de recherche sur le patrimoine musical en France

Visual materials are an invaluable source of knowledge for popular music, especially when archival documents are so incomplete in that field. These images show us how artistic forms were deployed to transform social facts and to organize the perception of reality. They inform us about prevailing social conventions, about values and standards.

Mots clés: The Cries of Paris; Street singers; modern singers selling broadsheets; travelling musicians; hurdy-gurdy players; street-organ players; one-man bands

Domaines: Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Art et histoire de l'art

Florence Gétreau. Street Musicians of Paris: Evolution of an Image. Music in Art, 1998, XXIII (1-2), pp.62-78. ⟨halshs-00117524⟩