| Series |
Eastman studies in music ; v. 32
Eastman studies in music ; v. 32. 1071-9989 ^A494093
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| Contents |
The soundscape of the 1889 exposition universelle -- Exhibiting music at the exposition universelle. Musique francaise ; Archaeologies: early music at the exposition ; The sounds of the globe: national concerts at the Trocadero -- Opera, ballet, and the politics of French identity. Massenet's Esclarmonde: a French answer to Wagner ; The retrospective of revolutionary Operas comiques ; A ballet for the nation's premier stage: Ambroise Thomas's La Tempete -- The republic's muse: Augusta Holmes's Ode triomphale. Commemorations, ceremonies, and the exposition universelle ; A revolutionary spectacle in the Palais de l'Industrie ; Gossec the revolutionary ; Singing the republic ; The republic's muse -- French encounters with the Far East. Musical exoticism and the listening imagination ; Music and race in French nineteenth-century musicography ; The location of exotic music at the 1889 exposition universelle ; The Kampong javanais ; The Theatre Annamite ; Once again: Debussy and the Gamelan (with a Vietnamese variation) -- Belly dancers, gypsies, and French peasants. Orientalism, oriental dancers, and Arab music ; Coloring black musicians at the exposition universelle ; Picturesque music of the people: Europe at the fair -- Marvels of technology. Listening to music without a source: opera through the telephone ; Le Roi Edison, or the triumph of the Phonograph -- Appendix 1. Programs of concerts at the exposition universelle. French concerts at the Trocadero ; Organ concerts at the Trocadero ; Transcription of programs for the two concerts of Musique francaise ancienne et moderne, 25 and 31 May 1889 ; Reconstructed programs for the two concerts of Musicque italienne ancienne et moderne, 5 and 12 June 1889 ; Programs of major foreign concerts at the Trocadero -- Appendix 2. Performances at the opera and the opera-comique during the exposition universelle. |
| Abstract |
This book explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the Exposition Universelle. It thereby also reveals the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-374) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005014454 |
| ISBN | 1580461859 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
