Julia Simon is Professor of French at the University of California, Davis.

“The research in Rousseau Among the Moderns is excellent. The book is clearly written and deploys an interesting and puckish sense of relation to present-day music. It is an important contribution to Rousseau scholarship and brings together a lot of material that has been published in very different venues.”—Tracy B. Strong, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction1Performance, Rhythm, and the Constitution of Community2Singing Democracy: Music and Politics3Rameau and Rousseau on Absolute and Relative Value: The Theory/Practice Problem4Folk Music: Authenticity, Primitivism, and the Uses of Roots Music5Rousseau and Aesthetic Modernity: Music’s Power of RedemptionConclusion: Rousseau Sings the BluesNotesBibliographyIndex

Julia Simon is Professor of French at the University of California, Davis.

“The research in Rousseau Among the Moderns is excellent. The book is clearly written and deploys an interesting and puckish sense of relation to present-day music. It is an important contribution to Rousseau scholarship and brings together a lot of material that has been published in very different venues.”—Tracy B. Strong, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction1Performance, Rhythm, and the Constitution of Community2Singing Democracy: Music and Politics3Rameau and Rousseau on Absolute and Relative Value: The Theory/Practice Problem4Folk Music: Authenticity, Primitivism, and the Uses of Roots Music5Rousseau and Aesthetic Modernity: Music’s Power of RedemptionConclusion: Rousseau Sings the BluesNotesBibliographyIndex

Julia Simon is Professor of French at the University of California, Davis.

“The research in Rousseau Among the Moderns is excellent. The book is clearly written and deploys an interesting and puckish sense of relation to present-day music. It is an important contribution to Rousseau scholarship and brings together a lot of material that has been published in very different venues.”—Tracy B. Strong, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction1Performance, Rhythm, and the Constitution of Community2Singing Democracy: Music and Politics3Rameau and Rousseau on Absolute and Relative Value: The Theory/Practice Problem4Folk Music: Authenticity, Primitivism, and the Uses of Roots Music5Rousseau and Aesthetic Modernity: Music’s Power of RedemptionConclusion: Rousseau Sings the BluesNotesBibliographyIndex