ICÔNES des musiques actuelles

Through musical icons and diverse aesthetics, you will discover a range of musical genres and movements, and different aesthetics. Taken together, these form what is today called ‘Musiques Actuelles’: rock, pop, folk, metal, rap, electronic music, Afro-American music…

While these styles are now popular and listened to by the greatest number of people, ICÔNES invites you to refine your listening by discovering the artists who inspired today's great figures, as well as those who, more discreetly, have transformed and reshaped their heritage to offer a new emergence and a new originality.

The exhibition brings together founders and emblematic artists to illustrate this journey, made of encounters and musical influences that create porosity between the different genres.

Music is a universal language, a vehicle for social bonds that brings people together and enables exchange. It is also the artistic form most favoured by young people, who are the creators of innovative musical movements.

The Médiathèque Départementale de Haute-Garonne and Les Musicophages have joined forces to accompany you on this deep dive into the musical currents that are now part of our cultural heritage.