Del 10 - Music in Society and Culture

America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914

Music, Revolution and Race

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvDiana R. Hallman,César A. Leal,Cesar A. Leal,Diana R, Hallman,Cesar Leal,Diana R Hallman,César A Leal

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Just as America was observed in French literary and political commentary, we find representations of America in French music, dance, and theatre which serve as the focus of this volume. Following the American Revolution, French authors often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging of new practices of liberté and égalité, in affinity with France's own Revolutionary ideals but in competition with lingering anti-American depictions of an inferior, untamed New World. The volume examines French imagining of America through musical/theatrical portrayals of the American Revolution and Republic, soundscapes of the Statue of Liberty, homages to Washington, Franklin and Lafayette and negotiations of Francophone identity in New Orleans. The subject of race features prominently in paradoxical depictions of slavery, freedom, and revolution in the United States and French Caribbean colonies of 'Amérique' and in varied interpretations of American music and gendered identity. Essays consider French constructions of the Indigenous American and Black American 'exotic' that intersect with tropes of noble, pastoral savagery, menacing barbarism and the 'civilising' potency of French culture. Such French constructions reveal both a revulsion of racial alterity and an attraction to the expressive, even subversive, freedom of Americanness. Investigations of French conceptions of America extend to critiques of American orchestral music, Gottschalk's Louisianan-Caribbean Creole works, Buffalo Bill's spectacles and the cakewalk in Paris. With scholarly contributions on music, dance, theatre and opera, the volume will be essential reading for students and scholars of these disciplines.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-05-17
Mått156 x 234 x 29 mm
Vikt730 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMusic in Society and Culture
Antal sidor410
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781783277001

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Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Kolonialism och imperialism inom Historia och arkeologi
Balett inom Kultur
Musikböcker inom Kultur
Musikhistoria inom Kultur

DIANA R. HALLMAN is Professor of Musicology, University Research Professor, and Coordinator of the Opera Research Alliance at the University of Kentucky. CÉSAR A. LEAL is Assistant Professor and Director of Orchestral Activities in the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. He also served as musicology professor and conductor at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. DIANA R. HALLMAN is Professor of Musicology, University Research Professor, and Coordinator of the Opera Research Alliance at the University of Kentucky. ANNEGRET FAUSER, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MARK A. POTTINGER is Professor of Music and Musicology and Chair of the Communication, Sound and Media Arts Department at Manhattan University, NY. CÉSAR A. LEAL is Assistant Professor and Director of Orchestral Activities in the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. He also served as musicology professor and conductor at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN.

IntroductionPart I. American liberté, sauvagerie and esclavage 1 Between Amérique and Colonial France: Revolutionary Tales of liberté and esclavage Diana R. Hallman2 Justamant's Le Bossu and Depictions of Indigenous Americans in Nineteenth-Century French BalletMarian Smith, Sarah Gutsche-Miller and Helena Kopchick Spencer3 Louisiana Imagined: Gender, Race and Slavery in Le Planteur (1839) Helena Kopchick Spencer Part II. Myths of America and Intersecting Identities4 'Brise du Sud': American Identity and War in the Popular Sheet Music of Francophone New Orleans Charlotte Bentley5 'The Most Seductive Creole Indolence': Louis Moreau Gottschalk in the French PressLaura Moore Pruett 6 Symphonies from the New World: The Myths and Realities of American Orchestral Music in France Douglas Shadle Part III. Soundscapes and Sonic Fantasies7 Historical Acoustemology in the French Romantic Travelogue: Chateaubriand's Sonic Imagining of the New World Ruth E. Rosenberg8 La Liberté éclairant le monde: Transatlantic Soundscapes for the Statue of Liberty Annegret Fauser Part IV. America, Commodification and Race at the fin de siècle9 Buffalo Bill and the Sound of America at the 1889 World's Fair Mark A. Pottinger10 Cakewalking in Paris: New Representations and Contexts of African American Culture César A. LealBibliographyIndex