Name Jean-Francois Dutertre | Role Singer | |
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Albums Chansons traditionnelles de Normandie Similar People Emmanuelle Parrenin, La Bamboche, Sylvie Berger, Marc Robine, Gabriel Yacoub | ||
Jean fran ois dutertre les anneaux de marianson
Jean-François Dutertre (March 1948 - 10 March 2017) was a French singer-songwriter and player of the hurdy-gurdy, épinette des Vosges, and traditional French music. He also played the bodhran and the bouzouki.
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- Jean fran ois dutertre les anneaux de marianson
- Jean fran ois dutertre la porcheronne
- Discography
- Participating discography
- Quotes
- Songs
- References
He had been a member of the band Mélusine and a house collaborator on the disk Le Chant du Monde. He was a great proponent of modal music and conducted numerous workshops. He was an advocate of the professionalisation of traditional musicians and singers and defended their rights in the CIMT [1] (Centre d’information des musiques traditionnelles et du monde).
Born in 1948 to Norman parents, he studied literature and also taught. He worked as a phonothécaire at the department of ethnomusicology at the musée de l'homme, and became enammored of traditional music, particularly French. He became involved in the Folk Revival of the 1960s, and joined the first French folk-club, Le Bourdon ("the drone"), and traveled to collect music in Quebec and Ireland in 1969 and 1970, as well as in Vosges from 1970-1972.
From 1975 to 1983, he was the executive producer and director of the collection of the label Chant du Monde, where he also worked to develop the Anthologie de la musique traditionnelle française. He played in the folk group Melusine from 1975-1990.
In 2002, he produced a disc of fifteen songs, coming from those collected in Normandie along with his old colleagues Jean-loup Baly and Yvon Guilcher, as well as other musicians such as Jean Blanchard.
Lately, he had devoted himself primarily to his work in musical institutions.
Jean fran ois dutertre la porcheronne
Discography
Participating discography
Quotes
« La chanson traditionnelle francophone est aussi une forme de poésie. Et comme toute poésie, elle porte l’empreinte du milieu et de la période où elle a été élaborée. Cette empreinte se manifeste dans les formules, les tournures et le vocabulaire. Aurait-on l’idée de reprocher à François Villon d’écrire dans la langue d’un étudiant parisien du XVe siècle ? Au-delà de la forme, la thématique est éternelle, les émois et les tourments demeurent identiques. Et puis, il y a la musique. Connaît-on, dans la chanson française, de plus parfaite adéquation entre langue et mélodie que celle que nous propose la chanson traditionnelle ? » (Jean-François Dutertre)
Songs
La belle qui fait la morteChansons traditionnelles de Normandie · 2013
La porcheronneBallades françaises (Traditional French Songs) · 2013
Les anneaux de MariansonBallades françaises (Traditional French Songs) · 2013