French music, culture, and national identity, 1870-1939
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French music, culture, and national identity, 1870-1939
(Eastman studies in music)
University of Rochester Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
New, insightful essays from musicologists, historians, art historians, and literary scholars reconsider the relationship of Debussy, Gauguin, Zola, and other great French creative artists to cultural and political trends during the Third Republic.
This collection of new essays examines the relationships between discourses of French national and regional identity, political alignment, and creative practice during one of France's most fascinating eras: the Third Republic.
The authors, from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, explore the ways in which the architects of the Third Republic [re]constructed France culturally and artistically, in part through artful use of the press and [at the 1889Paris World's Fair] new technologies. The chapters also investigate changing attitudes toward Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande, attempts by composers and critics to define a musical canon, and the impact of religious education, spirituality, and exoticism for Gauguin and Jolivet. Tensions between the center and region are seen in celebrations for the national musical figurehead, Rameau, and in the cultural regionalism that flourished in the annexed territories of Alsace and Lorraine.
Contributors: Edward Berenson, Katharine Ellis, Annegret Fauser, Didier Francfort, Brian Hart, Steven Huebner, Barbara L. Kelly, Detmar Klein, Deborah Mawer, James Ross, Marion Schmid, and Debora Silverman.
Barbara L. Kelly is Professor of Musicology at Keele University.
Table of Contents
Unifying the French Nation: Savorgnan de Brazza and the Third Republic - Edward Berenson
New Media, Source-Bonding, and Alienation: Listening at the 1889 Expositioin Universelle - Annegret Fauser
Debussy and the Making of a "Musicien Francais": Pelleas, the Press, and World War I - Barbara L. Kelly
"A bas wagner!": The French Press Campaign against Wagner during World War I
D'Indy's Beethoven - Steven Huebner
Messidor: Republican Patriotism and the French Revolutionary Tradition in Third Republic Opera - James Ross
The Symphony and National Identity in Early Twentieth- Century France
Transcending the Word? Religion and Music in Gaughuin's Quest for Abstraction
Jolivet's Search for a New French Voice: Spiritual "Otherness" in Mana (1935)
Rameau in Late Nineteenth-Century Dijon: Memorial, Festival, Fiasco
Becoming Alsatian: ANti-german and Pro-French Cultural Propaganda in Alsace, 1898-1914
National Identity and the Double Border in Lorraine, 1870-1914
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