Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (1852-1870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital. By exploring the sonic worlds of exhibitions, cafes, streets, and markets, Jacek Blaszkiewicz shows how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about le nouveau Paris: a metropolis at a crossroads between its classical, Roman past and its capitalist, imperial future. At the heart of the narrative is "Baron" Haussmann, the engineer of imperial urbanism and the inspiration for a range of musical responses to modernity, from the enthusiastic to the nostalgic. Drawing on theoretical approaches from historical musicology, urban sociology, and sound studies to shed light on newly surfaced archival material, Fanfare for a City argues that urbanism was a driving force in how nineteenth-century music was produced, performed, and policed.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Overall, for the Francophile, re-searcher of urban studies, curious traveler, or musicologist (including college or university music history in-structors), Blaszkiewicz provides an en-lightening look at nineteenth-century Paris in a way not often considered...Blaszkiewicz's study, utilizing Second Empire monumentality and spectacle as a jumping off point, chal-lenges readers to consider Paris at the street level by imagining and listening to the voices and the stories of those who made the city "the city" and who brushed up against the barrier be-tween old and new Paris." * Samuel T. Nemeth, Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association * "Fanfare for a City is an impressive, deeply researched achievement that offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between soundscape and cityscape in the Second Empire. For musicologists and readers interested in nineteenth-century French culture, the book provides new insights about musical practices and genres that have been little explored. " * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
12 music examples, 11 b-w figures
Maße
Höhe: 161 mm
Breite: 238 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-520-39347-9 (9780520393479)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jacek Blaszkiewicz is Assistant Professor of Music History at Wayne State University. His articles on French music and urban culture have appeared in 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Current Musicology, Journal of Musicology, and Opera Quarterly.
Contents
List of Illustrations and Musical Examples
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 * Baron Haussmann's Musical Imagination
2 * Fanfare City: The Expositions universelles
3 * Urban Planning Lessons from the Cafe-Concert
4 * Street Music: Between Regulation and Liberation
5 * Street Cries: Constructing the Old City
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
