{"id":651857,"date":"2025-12-24T05:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/651857\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T05:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:17:13","slug":"france-recognizes-electronic-music-as-intangible-cultural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/651857\/","title":{"rendered":"France Recognizes Electronic Music as \u2018Intangible Cultural Heritage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s official: Air<\/a>, Cassius<\/a>, Daft Punk<\/a>, Justice<\/a> and the great Jean-Michel Jarre<\/a> are pillars of French culture.<\/p>\n

\n\tElectronic music is added to the national Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage, acknowledgement that the artform is shaping France\u2019s artistic identity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cElectronic music has a rightful place in our national intangible heritage,\u201d says French Culture Minister Rachida Dati, following the ministry\u2019s labelling of clubs as \u201cplaces of artistic expression and celebration\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSpecial mention is given to Jean-Michel Jarre, who, in his late 20s created the masterpiece Oxyg\u00e8ne, an album of sweeping electronic tunes, all of them made on early synthesizers, without a vocal in the mix. <\/p>\n

\n\tOxyg\u00e8ne, released in 1976, and the albums that came after it, including Equinoxe and Zoolook, inspired the French Touch sound which spun around the world and continues to shine.<\/p>\n

\n\tJarre has put the work in for decades. The former president of CISAC, the global confederation of authors societies, has served as a UNESCO Ambassador since 1993, a role through which he plays point on advocating for electronic music.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2021, president Emmanuel Macron presented the composer and artist with the French Legion of Honour, the country\u2019s highest order of merit. On that occasion, Jarre was feted with the insignia of Commander to the Legion of Honour, recognized as the country\u2019s highest honor, both military and civil.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m glad to see that electronic music is finally taking its place within world heritage, especially after more than three decades of commitment as a UNESCO Ambassador and spokesperson for intangible culture,\u201d says Jarre in a social post, marking this \u201chistoric milestone for electronic music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOver five decades, Jarre, now 77, has presented electronic music at the grandest of stages by performing at UNESCO World Heritage sites including the Pyramids of Giza, the Forbidden City, the Eiffel Tower, Versailles, Masada, Pompeii and, most recently, Samarkand. Just last month, he played at Registan Square in Samarkand during UNESCO\u2019s 43rd General Conference.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrance might\u2019ve birthed the electronic music movement almost 100 years ago. It was the French inventor Maurice Martenot who in 1928 unveiled the Ondes Martenot, one of the first electronic instruments and one that is still used today by orchestras.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: Air, Cassius, Daft Punk, Justice and the great Jean-Michel Jarre are pillars of French culture. Electronic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[132048,20905,2000,299,36,42876,112041],"class_list":{"0":"post-651857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-bbnews","9":"tag-dance","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-genre-dance","14":"tag-genre-electronic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115772853716741021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}