Musical encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
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Musical encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
（Eastman studies in music, 32）
University of Rochester Press, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-374) and index
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Description
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, thereby revealing the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century.
Table of Contents
Exhibiting Music at the Exposition Universelle
Opera, Ballet, and the Politics of French Identity
The Republic's Muse: Augusta Holmes's Ode triomphale
French Encounters with the Far East
Belly Dancers, Gypsies, and French Peasants
The Marvels of Technology
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