Two of my favorite Frogs: Dada king (or queen?) Marcel Duchamp and 1930s Musette crooner Jean Sablon. A founder of the Paris and New York Dada movements, Duchamp is best known for passing signed urinals, bottleracks and moustached Mona Lisas off as art, a word he hated and hoped to dismantle. Musette means bagpipe, but it refers to early 1900s accordion music played in Paris cabarets and dancehalls. The unrefined tunes of working stiffs and immigrants, Musette incorporated French, Italian, Central European and gypsy influences. Sablon was one of its most famous sons and the first Frenchman to use a mic onstage, to the horror of the French.

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