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America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914 : music, revolution and race /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hallman, Diana R. (Editor ), Leal, César Andrés (Editor ), Smith, Marian E. (Contribuidor), Gutsche-Miller, Sarah, 1977- (Contribuidor), Spencer, Helena Kopchick (Contribuidor), Bentley, Charlotte (Musicologist) (Contribuidor), Pruett, Laura Moore (Contribuidor), Shadle, Douglas W. (Contribuidor), Rosenberg, Ruth E. (Contribuidor), Fauser, Annegret (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2022.
Colección:Music in society and culture ; v.10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.