Sentence examples for inspired chanson from inspiring English sources

Each can be heard on RadioLulu along with the 2006 cover version they inspired, "Chanson pour Louise Brooks," by the French group Les Primitifs Du Futur, featuring the famed cartoonist Robert Crumb on mandolin.

Born to middle-class parents in French Guiana in 1917, Mr. Salvador spent 73 years entertaining audiences with a mix of raucous hoofing, gags and jazz-inspired chanson.

As Francis Steegmuller put it in his wonderful biography, Apollinaire: Poet among the painters (1963): with the two major poems inspired by Annie Playden, "L'Émigrant du Landor Road" and "La Chanson du Mal-Aimé", it was "as though Stendhal's despairing cry - 'who will deliver us from Louis XIV?' - was finally answered".

Not satisfied with one album inspired by Balkan brass bands and another by French chanson, or by collaborations with Arcade Fire and Grizzly Bear ,Condon will return next year with a double EP in two more styles - bedroom electronica and Mexican funeral marches.

So this is not an exercise in raw power, as per the Stooges album of 1973, but rather a vein of weathered chanson like that explored on 2009's Preliminaires, where Iggy went highbrow, inspired by jazz, Brel and a Michel Houellebecq novel.

The title La fille aux cheveux de lin was inspired by Leconte de Lisle's poem by the same name, one of his Chansons écossaises (Scottish songs) from his 1852 collection Poèmes antiques (Ancient Poems).

The success of the crusade inspired the literary imagination of poets in France, who, in the 12th century, began to compose various chansons de geste celebrating the exploits of Godfrey of Bouillon and other crusaders.

His principal biographers all agree that this affair inspired a burst of creativity and a new originality in his music, exemplified in the song cycle La bonne chanson.

Alexander preferred to watch Russian films and spent hours listening to 1970s Russian 'chanson' tapes, a dissident music genre inspired by life in prison and the Gulag.

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