This Friday, historian Ivan Jablonka publishes an essay on the reasons for the popularity of Jean-Jacques Goldman, who sang “I walk alone“, despite changing trends. Far from the eyes, close to the hearts of fans, Jean-Jacques Goldman has become an unassailable icon, as shown in a book by historian Ivan Jablonka, who is interested in the reasons why the singer of “I walk alone” knew a sudden popularity, and kept it as fashions passed.
The reasons for the popularity of Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman has become consensual, according to the author. But that hasn’t always been the case. In the 1980s, he was reviled by the leftist intellectual press. Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to his concerts then, but for others he represented political softness, cultural capitalism and artistic mediocrity. Michel Sardou, from the same generation born after the war, was another target of this French intelligentsia. At the heart for a week of a controversy born of the remarks of the singer Juliette Armanet on “Les Lacs du Connemara” (1981), which she finds “filthy” and “right-wing”, Sardou is more divisive. But in this controversy, he adopted a very Goldmanian posture: to let people speak.
Jean-Jacques Goldman’s song is political
Jean-Jacques Goldman, who has been fleeing the media for twenty years, is marked on the left. Completely aware of his political family, with a strong family tradition, his father’s involvement in the Resistance, and a half-brother (Pierre) who was a figure of the extreme left, details Ivan Jablonka in his book ” Goldman”.
For the historian, the song is political. The author goes so far as to speak of “Goldmanism”, a social democratic tradition, close to the sensitivity of the British writer George Orwell or former Prime Minister Michel Rocard, made up of attention to the weakest, of respect cultural differences and the ideal of humanist fraternity. “The question I asked myself is: why the end of Goldmanism? », explains the historian. Jean-Jacques Goldman, 71, precipitated it by his refusal of the system of celebrities born with the Internet.
“We live in a regime of ultravisibility, with social networks, the hunt for likes, influencers, etc. Can we imagine Goldman in this new deal? Certainly not,” says the author of the essay. If he did not seek to meet the singer, the author of “Laëtitia or the End of Men”, Medici Prize 2016, asked to consult his archives. “In vain, because I didn’t get an answer,” he remarks.
Conclusion
The popularity of Jean-Jacques Goldman, who has become an unassailable icon, is the subject of a book by historian Ivan Jablonka. This one is therefore interested in the reasons for which the singer has known a sudden popularity. But also why he kept it when fashions passed. Jean-Jacques Goldman was reviled by the left intellectual press in the 1980s, but he became consensual.
For the historian, the song is political, and he goes so far as to speak of “Goldmanism”, a social democratic tradition, close to the sensitivity of the British writer George Orwell or the former Prime Minister Michel Rocard, made attention to the weakest, respect for cultural differences and the ideal of humanist fraternity. Jean-Jacques Goldman, 71, hastened the end of “Goldmanism” by his rejection of the system of celebrities born with the Internet, according to the author of the essay.
2023-08-19 21:31:57
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