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Composing the citizen : music as public utility in Third Republic France
- Title
- Composing the citizen : music as public utility in Third Republic France / Jann Pasler.
- Author
- Pasler, Jann.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
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- Description
- xxi, 789 p. : ill., map, music; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- "An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Jacket flap.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Paris : a walking tour (Topographies of power : the semiotics of the Parisian landscape ; Negotiating life in the city ; New promenades in the aural landscapes of Paris ; The legacy of the Third Republic) -- Forming public spirit and useful citizens (Use, the useful, and public utility : a theory of musical value ; Reinscribing the revolutionary legacy ) -- Shaping judgment and national taste (Music as political culture : from active listening to active citizenship ; Regenerating national pride : musical progress and international glory) -- Instituting Republican culture (Imagining a new nation through music : new traditions, new history ; An ideology of diversity, eclecticism, and pleasure ; Musical hybridity and the challenges of colonialism ; Useful distractions and economic liberalism in the belle époque) -- Shifting notions of utility : between the nation and the self (Music as resistance and an emerging avant-garde ; The symbolic utility of music at the 1889 Universal Exhibition ; New alliances and new music ; The dynamics of identity and the struggle for distinction) -- Coda -- Appendix A, Important political and musical events in the early Third Republic -- Appendix B, References in Ménestrel to performances of French operas abroad, 1872-1888 -- Appendix C, Selected publications on revolutionary music after 1870.
- Call Number
- JME 09-1141
- ISBN
- 9780520257405 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520257405 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008029252
- OCLC
- 233635072
- Author
- Pasler, Jann.
- Title
- Composing the citizen : music as public utility in Third Republic France / Jann Pasler.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JME 09-1141