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Singing the French Revolution : Popular Culture and Politics, 1787-1799 /

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 d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mason, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.