French folk music : musette. The story of unique mixed genre. Part 1 from the end of the XIXth century to World War I : origins & early beginnings.
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The interwar period stands as the most wonderful years of the musette music style, and owes its success to the alchemy between guitar and accordion, which gave birth to a “jazz à la française” : swing musette.
The period after World War II had to challenge a bunch of threats, which strangled a style on the decline.