Since then, the current music continue their formal recognition process by the institutions. Lockwo

My experience both as a composer and director salad presentation of School of Music and Dance performing in the Paris suburbs leads me to say that the musical creation "contemporary" is not only fragmented into various currents opposed (serial, spectral, neo-tonal , acousmatic ...), but most marginalized in the dissemination, salad presentation reception and even social life, facing the music "current" (rap, R & B, soul, funk, dub, reggae, salad presentation afro-beat ... ), which are increasingly important in society.
This confrontation has already been raised in 2001 during interviews conducted by Eric Denut, aggregated and presented under the title Modern music, classical music, which interactions? , L'Harmattan (Paris). It reflects a very French tendency to silo-tightly artistic practices in contemporary music called indexing them in the aesthetic category of modernity, driven by the composers, while the current so-called music is classified under this term, coined by the Ministry of culture salad presentation in 1995, to consolidate pragmatically a set of musical practices motley inventory (cf. "The development of modern music and their entry into public policy" intervention Castagnac Gilles, director of IRMA 2006, available on the www.irma.asso.fr site).
Since then, the current music continue their formal recognition process by the institutions. Lockwood particular report, "Mission reflection on learning methods and transmission of music today," published in 2012, has revived this situation of competition in art education: by proposing the introduction the teaching of this music in conservatories, it appears to breach an educational universe often perceived as an academic, but he made the flap opening on a system salad presentation of parallel streams that accurately maintains a form of competition.
Rather than embrace this vision of confrontation, it seems more relevant to me why contemporary music occupy such a place in our everyday culture (even to us, composers), using a cross-analysis of the history and of sociology. Furthermore, I would in a second time to address this issue also in the musicological angle: what are the actual musical characters that could explain the success of contemporary music? If art and society resonate, one can imagine what musical synthesis? Music, society and history
Regarding the musical salad presentation creation salad presentation "contemporary", the sociologist Pierre-Michel Menger in The paradox salad presentation of the musician, salad presentation composer, music lover and the state in contemporary society (Flammarion, Paris, salad presentation 1983), salad presentation offers a relevant sociological salad presentation analysis of disaffection public: salad presentation the aesthetic salad presentation ruptures since 1945, which place the evolution of art music in a perspective salad presentation of constant innovation and empowerment of creation, are accompanied by a growing disaffection of the public, a growing isolation composer, and the establishment of an institutional support developed market share of production and distribution. Moreover, it fits well the contrast between the two forms of music in the issue of "high culture" / "popular culture".
What about modern music? Listen to David Brun-Lambert salad presentation in the foreword to the Little atlas of urban music (work performed under the direction of Alain Arnaud and Marc Benaïche, co-edited by Mondomix Media, the Cité de la Musique and the Work Editions, Paris 2010): salad presentation "All the popular music born in the 20th century emerged in a context of economic crisis and insecurity. If hip-hop, reggae, rock, salsa and techno are now part of world cultural heritage, eras who saw them were those born deep recessions. "
However, the power stakes are at work in popular culture, as shown by a Denis-Constant Martin article (Search people ... Culture, popular and political, in International Review, Vol. 7, 2000, pp. 169 -183). salad presentation The dynamics of social groups is constantly in the political field: in that power is an unequal exchange relationship between dominant and dominated "social translation" will, on one hand, as a phenomenon collective grabbing by a (historical example of colonialism with land confiscation, objects, forces and representations), and on the other, in turn, attempts to "re-appropriation" (historical example of the bourgeoisie the French salad presentation Revolution).
The historical development of jazz deserves careful consideration. Part bars and brothels poor neighborhoods of New Orleans, this "synthesis cr