French music, culture, and national identity, 1870-1939 / edited by Barbara L. Kelly.

Other author Kelly, Barbara L., editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoRochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2008.
Descriptionxix, 260 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEastman studies in music, 1071-9989
Eastman studies in music. ^A494093
Contents Heroism, art, and new media: France and identity formation. Unifying the French nation: Savorgnan de Brazza and the Third Republic / Edward Berenson ; New media, source-bonding, and alienation: listening at the 1889 Exposition Universelle / Annegret Fauser ; Debussy and the making of a musicien français: Pelléas, the press, and World War I / Barbara L. Kelly ; A bas Wagner!: the French press campaign against Wagner during World War I / Marion Schmid -- Canon, style, and political alignment. D'Indy's Beethoven / Steven Huebner ; Messidor: republican patriotism and the French revolutionary tradition in Third Republic opera / James Ross ; The symphony and national identity in early twentieth-century France / Brian Hart ; Transcending the word?: religion and music in Gauguin's quest for abstraction / Debora Silverman ; Jolivet's search for a new French voice: spiritual otherness in Mana (1935) / Deborah Mawer -- Regionalism. Rameau in late nineteenth-century Dijon: memorial, festival, fiasco / Katharine Ellis ; Becoming Alsatian: anti-German and pro-French cultural propaganda in Alsace, 1898-1914 / Detmar Klein ; National identity and the double border in Lorraine, 1870-1914 / Didier Francfort ; translated by Christopher Moore.
Abstract Here, essays from musicologists, historians, art historians and literary scholars reconsider the relationship of Debussy, Gaugin, Jolivet, Zola, and other great French creative artists to cultural and political trends (for example, the rise of the press, nationalism, etc.) during the Third Republic.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007042718
ISBN9781580462723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1580462723

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Music Music Stacks ML3917.F8 F74 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold