Interaction between literature and chanson in artistic cabarets

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370346
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature
• Research Institution: Shinshu University
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIDA Masaaki 信州大学, 学術研究院人文科学系, 教授 (20191611)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MIKIHARA Hiroshi 神戸大学, 国際文化学研究科, 名誉教授 (70116177)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: フランス文学 / シャンソニエ / 文芸キャバレー / カフェ・コンセール

Outline of Final Research Achievements

First of all, we could discover and collect various valuable literature and documents including records of original chansons and some text of songs with musical note and illustration as "Paris qui chante".
Secondly, through analyzing these sources, we could study the realities and interaction between poets and chansonniers going to artistic cabarets in the second half of the 19th century. We could also find some realities of poets and songwriters of "La Muse rouge" almost unknown in Japan.
Thirdly, through these researches we could contribute to the development of academic research of chanson.

Free Research Field

フランス文学