Popular music before 1958 -- The 1960s : authenticity and barbarism -- From 1968 to the present : authenticity and mโetissage -- Chanson as national myth : the authenticity debate -- Denationalising authenticity : the sociological debate -- Music and politics before 1981 -- Music and politics, 1981-93 -- Policy and the music industry at the end of the millennium -- Policy and its discontents : the republican debate -- Techno and the state : the cultural debate