Kaddour Hadadi (HK)

Kaddour Hadadi is the leader of a popular-music group with social-revendication themes, including the masterpiece "Danser encore" which challenges the covid restrictions. One of his interesting input in the genre is some sort of Célinian transmutation of the narrative style that brings in some elements of spoken, popular language alongside an otherwise highly crafted and poetic text. Examples are the main line, and the title itself, of "Danser encore":

Nous on veut continuer à danser encore

which is the type of pleonasm that one would correct in a child's phrasing but that here acquires the dimension and pretention of something between an anadiplosis and a polyptoton. This other example is from "Merci":

Si tout le monde il dit merci, ça irait mieux la France

where the text is given some foreign, specifically Arabic, touch, that would normally be comical or pathetic as betraying some faulty command of the language, but that here raises to some potent, authentic, direct formulation whose urgency and importance of the ordering, forces the nattator to deliver in this form. The correct version, "si tout le monde disait merci, la France irait mieux" (or "ça irait mieux en France"), has lost all its impact.

This a selection of favourite songs:

  1. Danser encore.
  2. Sans haine, sans armes, sans violence.
  3. Merci