French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939

BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds ANNEGRET FAUSER, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds STEVEN HUEBNER is the James McGill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. JAMES ROSS is Reader in Late Medieval History at the University of Winchester, UK. He has published extensively on the late medieval nobility, kingship and political society.

• Unifying the French Nation: Savorgnan de Brazza and the Third Republic - Edward BerensonNew Media, Source-Bonding, and Alienation: Listening at the 1889 Expositioin Universelle - Annegret FauserDebussy and the Making of a "Musicien Francais": Pelléas, the Press, and World War I - Barbara L. Kelly"A bas wagner!": The French Press Campaign against Wagner during World War ID'Indy's Beethoven - Steven HuebnerMessidor: Republican Patriotism and the French Revolutionary Tradition in Third Republic Opera - James RossThe Symphony and National Identity in Early Twentieth- Century FranceTranscending the Word? Religion and Music in Gaughuin's Quest for AbstractionJolivet's Search for a New French Voice: Spiritual "Otherness" in Mana (1935)Rameau in Late Nineteenth-Century Dijon: Memorial, Festival, FiascoBecoming Alsatian: ANti-german and Pro-French Cultural Propaganda in Alsace, 1898-1914National Identity and the Double Border in Lorraine, 1870-1914

This brilliant series of publications now offers . . . this rich and fascinating portrait of the relationships between artistic creation and the representation of national identity during the Third Republic. . . . The volume contains some twenty illustrations that make the reading most pleasurable. In sum, a remarkable contribution, and an essential work for those who are interested in French cultural history.