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Fanfare for a city : music and the urban imagination in Haussmann's Paris
- Title
- Fanfare for a city : music and the urban imagination in Haussmann's Paris / Jacek Blaszkiewicz.
- Author
- Blaszkiewicz, Jacek, 1988-
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
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- Description
- xi, 250 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (1852-1870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital. By exploring the sonic worlds of exhibitions, cafés, streets, and markets, Jacek Blaszkiewicz shows how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about le nouveau Paris: a metropolis at a crossroads between its classical, Roman past and its capitalist, imperial future. At the heart of the narrative is 'Baron' Haussmann, the engineer of imperial urbanism and the inspiration for a range of musical responses to modernity, from the enthusiastic to the nostalgic. Drawing on theoretical approaches from historical musicology, urban sociology, and sound studies to shed light on newly surfaced archival material, Fanfare for a City argues that urbanism was a driving force in how nineteenth-century music was produced, performed, and policed"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Baron Haussmann's musical imagination -- Fanfare city : the Expositions universelles -- Urban planning lessons from the café-concert -- Street music : between regulation and liberation -- Street cries : constructing the old city -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JME 24-182
- ISBN
- 9780520393479
- 0520393473
- 9780520393486 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023026014
- OCLC
- 1374242783
- Author
- Blaszkiewicz, Jacek, 1988- author.
- Title
- Fanfare for a city : music and the urban imagination in Haussmann's Paris / Jacek Blaszkiewicz.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Blaszkiewicz, Jacek, 1988- Fanfare for a city Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] 9780520393486 (DLC) 2023026015
- Research Call Number
- JME 24-182