frmusic1-6, Exercise 1: From café-concert to chanson

Model answer:

In the nineteenth century Paris had cafe-concerts and, later, larger music halls where singers, comedians and dancers performed in an informal setting, with short, topical, memorable songs. That performance tradition, carried by records and radio, developed into the chanson. Venues named in this chapter are the Moulin Rouge and the Olympia, the Paris hall where a singer's reputation could be made or broken.

Check the venue details against a reference work.