Fanfare for a City

Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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, cafés, 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520393479

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Musikhistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

"Overall, for the Francophile, researcher of urban studies, curious traveler, or musicologist (including college or university music history instructors), Blaszkiewicz provides an enlightening 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, challenges 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 between old and new Paris."

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of Illustrations and Musical Examples AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 • Baron Haussmann’s Musical Imagination 2 • Fanfare City: The Expositions universelles 3 • Urban Planning Lessons from the Café-Concert 4 • Street Music: Between Regulation and Liberation 5 • Street Cries: Constructing the Old City Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index