Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2005
416 pages
978-1-58046-641-7 (ISBN)
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Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, therebyrevealing the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century.
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Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
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ANNEGRET FAUSER, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ANNEGRET FAUSER, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Content
Exhibiting Music at the Exposition Universelle
Opera, Ballet, and the Politics of French Identity
The Republic's Muse: Augusta Holmes's Ode triomphale
French Encounters with the Far East
Belly Dancers, Gypsies, and French Peasants
The Marvels of Technology
Opera, Ballet, and the Politics of French Identity
The Republic's Muse: Augusta Holmes's Ode triomphale
French Encounters with the Far East
Belly Dancers, Gypsies, and French Peasants
The Marvels of Technology
