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Composing the citizen music as public utility in Third Republic France

Title: Composing the citizen [electronic resource] : music as public utility in Third Republic France / Jann Pasler.
Author: Pasler, Jann.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

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1 online resource (xxi, 789 p.) : ill., map, music.

Uniform Title

Composing the citizen (Online)

Alternative Title

Composing the citizen (Online)

Subject

Music > Social aspects > History > France > 19th century
Music > Political aspects > History > France > 19th century
France > Social life and customs > 19th century
France > Politics and government > 1870-1940

Note

"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Jacket flap.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

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