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Author Mason, Laura.

Title Singing the French Revolution : popular culture and politics, 1787-1799 / Laura Mason
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Fellows' publications
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents Introduction: Revolutionary Scholarship and Popular Culture -- Ch. 1. Songs under the Old Regime -- Ch. 2. Songs in the Street (1787 -- July 1792) -- Ch. 3. Songs off the Street: Newspapers, Theaters, and Satire (1789 -- September 1793) -- Interlude: From Chant de Guerre to La Marseillaise -- Ch. 4. The Revolutionary Song (April 1792 -- Pluviose Year III) -- Ch. 5. The Reactionary Song (Brumaire Year III -- Ventose Year IV) -- Ch. 6. The Song in Retreat (Messidor Year III -- Brumaire Year VIII) -- Ch. 7. Songs Silenced and Changed (from Ventose Year IV into the Nineteenth Century) -- Conclusion: The Impact and Legacy of Revolutionary Culture
Summary Laura Mason examines the shifting fortunes of singing as a political gesture to highlight the importance of popular culture to revolutionary politics. Arguing that scholars have overstated the uniformity of revolutionary political culture, Mason uses songwriting and singing practices to reveal its diverse nature. Song performances in the streets, theaters, and clubs of Paris showed how popular culture was invested with new political meaning after 1789, becoming one of the most important means for engaging in revolutionary debate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index
Notes English
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Subject Revolutionary ballads and songs -- France -- History and criticism
Popular culture -- France -- History -- 18th century
Culture.
Popular culture -- France -- History and criticism -- 18th century
Culture
culture note.
culture (concept)
Culture
Popular culture
Revolutionary ballads and songs
Revolutionslied
Franse Revolutie.
Strijdliederen.
Music.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political.
SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051319
France
Subject France
Französisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96017694
ISBN 0801432332
9780801432330
9781501728563
1501728563