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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mason, Laura
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996.
Collection:ACLS Fellows' publications.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.