| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 382 pages) : illustrations (black and white), music |
| Series |
Music in society and culture ; v. 10 |
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Music in society and culture ; v.10.
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| Contents |
Part I. American liberté, sauvagerie and esclavage. Between Amérique and colonial France : revolutionary tales of liberté and esclavage / Diana R. Hallman ; Justamant's Le bossu and depictions of Indigenous Americans in nineteenth-century French ballet / Marian Smith, Sarah Gutsche-Miller and Helena Kopchick Spencer ; Louisiana imagined : gender, race and slavery in Le planteur (1839) / Helena Kopchick-Spencer -- Part II. Myths of America and intersecting identities. "Brise du Sud" : American identity and war in the popular sheet music of francophone New Orleans / Charlotte Bentley ; "The most seductive Creole indolence" : Louis Moreau Gottschalk in the French press / Laura Moore Pruett ; Symphonies from the new world : the myths and realities of American orchestral music in France / Douglas W. Shadle -- Part III. Soundscapes and sonic fantasies. Historical acoustemology in the French romantic travelogue : Chateaubriand's sonic imagining of the new world / Ruth E. Rosenberg ; La liberté éclairant le monde : transatlantic soundscapes for the Statue of Liberty / Annegret Fauser -- Part IV. America, commodification and race at the fin de siècle. Buffalo Bill and the sound of America during the 1889 world's fair / Mark A. Pottinger ; Cakewalking in Paris : new representations and contexts of African American culture / César A. Leal |
| Summary |
Just as America was observed in French literary and political commentary, we find representations of America in French music, dance, and theatre which serve as the focus of this volume |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 25, 2022) |
| Subject |
Music -- France -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Music -- France -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Music -- France -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Music -- American influences.
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MUSIC / History & Criticism.
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Music
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Music -- American influences
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hallman, Diana R., editor.
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Leal, César Andrés, editor.
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Smith, Marian E., contributor
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Gutsche-Miller, Sarah, 1977- contributor.
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Spencer, Helena Kopchick, contributor.
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Bentley, Charlotte (Musicologist), contributor.
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Pruett, Laura Moore, contributor
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Shadle, Douglas W., contributor.
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Rosenberg, Ruth E., contributor.
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Fauser, Annegret, contributor.
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| ISBN |
1800105398 |
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9781800105393 |
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