Yé-yé
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Yé-yé is a style of pop music, popular in France in the 1960s. It generally consisted of young women singing pop songs influenced by The Beatles (She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah) and American girl groups.
In her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'", Susan Sontag cited yé-yé as an example of an entire genre being annexed by the camp sensibility.[1]
[edit] Exemplary practitioners of Yé-yé
- France Gall
- Jane Birkin
- Petula Clark
- Françoise Hardy
- Sylvie Vartan
- Sheila
- Chantal Goya
- Brigitte Bardot
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