Composing the Citizen : Music As Public Utility in Third Republic France.
In a book that challenges modernist ideas about the value and role of music in Western society, Composing the Citizen demonstrates how music can help forge a nation. Deftly exploring the history of Third Republic France, Jann Pasler shows how French people from all classes and political persuasions...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. 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
- PART ONE: FORMING PUBLIC SPIRIT AND USEFUL CITIZENS
- 1 Use, the Useful, and Public Utility: A Theory of Musical Value
- Tensions between the Useful and the Beautiful
- Satisfying Social Needs and Creating the Nation
- Music as Utilité Publique
- 2 Reinscribing the Revolutionary Legacy
- Public Instruction of Mind and Heart
- Music in Public Festivals
- National Institutions
- Music, Character, and the Utility of Gender
- PART TWO: SHAPING JUDGMENT AND NATIONAL TASTE
- 3 Music as Political Culture: From Active Listening to Active Citizenship
- Political Legitimacy and Civic Society
- Republican Pedagogy, Cultural Integration, and Citizenship
- Performance and Public Taste under the Moral Order
- 4 Regenerating National Pride: Musical Progress and International Glory
- Moral and Musical Progress
- Exporting French Music and French Values
- Arts Policy and the Utility of Competition
- Contradictions and Paradoxes
- PART THREE: INSTITUTING REPUBLICAN CULTURE
- 5 Imagining a New Nation through Music: New Traditions, New History
- Enacting Change at Schools and the Opéra
- Reevaluating Luxury and the Question of Opera
- Renarrating the Revolution
- Reconceiving Music History
- 6 An Ideology of Diversity, Eclecticism, and Pleasure
- Cultivating Aesthetic Tolerance
- Redefining Music's Utilité Publique
- Exploring Uncharted Territory
- 7 Musical Hybridity and the Challenges of Colonialism
- Musical Fantasies Fueling Colonialist Desire
- Music and Colonial Assumptions
- Songs Inspiring Resistance.
- 8 Useful Distractions and Economic Liberalism in the Belle Epoque
- Department Stores
- Competition in the Musical World
- Expanded Performance Opportunities, Including for Women
- Theater and Popular Entertainment
- PART FOUR: SHIFTING NOTIONS OF UTILITY: BETWEEN THE NATION AND THE SELF
- 9 Music as Resistance and an Emerging Avant-garde
- Reviving Memory of the Ancien Régime
- Wagner's Threatening Allure
- Art beyond Politics, Music of and for the Mind
- Intuition and Radically New Concepts of Music
- 10 The Symbolic Utility of Music at the 1889 Universal Exhibition
- Republican Values on Display
- The Utility of Exotic Music
- The Exhibition in Retrospect
- 11 New Alliances and New Music
- Mandating Change
- The New Left's Hopes
- The New Right's Progressism in Politics and Music
- Revisiting Musique ancienne et moderne
- 12 The Dynamics of Identity and the Struggle for Distinction
- Race and French History
- Listening through Women
- Fusion versus Distinction
- From the Useful to the Healthy
- 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
- List of Illustrations
- List of Musical Examples
- Illustration Credits
- Index
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- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
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