Music Criticism in France, 1918-1939

BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds KIMBERLY FRANCIS is an associate professor of music at the University of Guelph, Canada. CAROLINE RAE is Professor of Music at Cardiff University, UK. RACHEL MOORE is Lecturer in Music, Cardiff University. DANICK TROTTIER is Professor of Music at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

• Introduction: The Role of Criticism in Interwar Musical Culture - Christopher Moore and Barbara L. KellyMusic Criticism and Aesthetics during the Interwar Period: Fewer Crimes and More Punishments - Michel DuchesneauNostalgia and Violence in the Music Criticism of L'Action française - Christopher MooreCharles Koechlin: The Figure of the Expert - Philippe CathéBleu-horizon Politics and Music for Radio Listeners: L'Initiation à la musique (1935) - Jann PaslerCommon Canon, Conflicting Ideologies: Music Criticism in Performance in Interwar France - Barbara L. KellyArthur Honegger: Music Critic for Musique et Théâtre (1925-1926) - Pascal LécroartA Woman's Critical Voice: Nadia Boulanger and Le Monde musical, 1919-1923 - Kimberly FrancisFrom a Foreign Correspondent: the Parisian Chronicles of Alejo Carpentier - Caroline RaeDebussy's 'Reputational Entrepreneurs': Vuillermoz, Koechlin, Laloy, and Vallas - Marianne WheeldonThe Legacy of War: Conceptualising Wartime Musical Life in the Post-War Musical Press, 1919-1920 - Rachel MooreJacinthe Harbec, Satie, Relâche and the Press: Controversies and Legacy - Jacinthe HarbecCreating a Canon: Émile Vuillermoz's Musiques d'aujourd'hui and French Musical Modernity - Danick TrottierBibliography

[T]he first detailed study of its kind . . . . Ultimately, what emerges from [this book] is not only a thought-provoking and highly variegated impression of the roles and activities of French music criticism in the 1920s and 30s but also a clear sense of the importance of the study of the discourse of music criticism within musicology that is also part of a broader context of sociopolitical and cultural history.