Composing the Citizen
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-25740-5 (ISBN)
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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 looked to music to revitalize the country after the turbulent crises of 1871. Embraced not as a luxury but for its 'public utility', music became an object of public policy as integral to modern life as power and water, a way to teach critical judgment and inspire national pride. It helped people to forget the past, voice conflicting aspirations, and imagine a shared future. Based on a dazzling survey of archival material, Pasler's rich interdisciplinary work looks beyond elites and the histories their agendas have dominated to open new windows onto the musical tastes and practices of amateurs as well as professionals. This title presents a fascinating history of the period emerges, one rooted in political realities and the productive tensions between the political and the aesthetic.
Highly evocative and deeply humanistic, "Composing the Citizen" ignites broad debates about music's role in democracy and its meaning in our lives.
Jann Pasler is Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego. Among her books is Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and Modernist (UC Press) and Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics.
Preface 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 1. 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 Utilite 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 2. 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 3. Instituting Republican Culture 5. Imagining a New Nation through Music: New Traditions, New History Enacting Change at Schools and the Opera--Reevaluating Luxury and the Question of Opera--Renarrating the Revolution--Reconceiving Music History 6. An Ideology of Diversity, Eclecticism, and Pleasure Promoting Diversity and Eclecticism--Redefining Music's Utilite 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 4. Shifting Notions of Utility: Between the Nation and the Self 9. Music as Resistance and an Emerging Avant-garde Reviving Memory of the Ancien Regime--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 Alliances 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 Menestrel 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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.7.2009 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 104 b-w photographs, 19 tables, 34 music examples |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 1497 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-25740-5 / 0520257405 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-25740-5 / 9780520257405 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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