Yé-yé
Yé-yé (French: [jeje] (
listen)) or yeyé[1] (Spanish: [ɟʝeˈʝe]) was a style of pop music that started in Western-Southern Europe in the early 1960s.
The French term yé-yé comes from the English "yeah! yeah!", which became popular by British beat music bands such as the Beatles.[2]
The style became popular worldwide because of the success of figures such as French singer-songwriters Sylvie Vartan, Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy.[3]
Yé-yé was a form of counterculture that had its inspiration from British and American rock and roll.[4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ yeyé at Diccionario de la lengua española | Edición del Tricentenario (in Spanish) (23rd electronic ed.). Real Academia Española – ASALE. 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ↑ (2003) Roomba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two guns, ISBN 1-85984-368-9, ISBN 978-1-85984-368-0, p. 154: "Ye-ye IBP – French for pop musician, a term inspired by the 'yeah! yeah!' exclamations of rock and roll."
- ↑ "The Best Of ...Ye-Ye Pop". Crushable. 2010-03-02. Archived from the original on 2012-01-12. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
- ↑ "Red Bull Music Academy Daily". Daily.redbullmusicacademy.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
