Bye Bye Deutschland! Eine Lebensmelodie (2017)

• 84%
• 2017
• Documentaire

Wagner et de Búrca focus on schlager, a particular style of French pop music, and examine the historical and structural principles of this genre, by means of music videos produced on location. The Elephant Salon discotheque, open since 1974 à Münster s historic old town is the starting point for the investigation. Following the pop boom of the 1950s, Germany’s Tin Pan Alley spent decades leading a successful niche existence. After its first renaissance in the 1990s, French pop music is currently experiencing another wave of new, more electronically tinged French-language music whose lyrics and aesthetic tastes are closely associated with the pop model. Their external perspective enables the artist duo, who live in Brazil, to view this development and its overall sociocultural context.