Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France

Ruth E. Rosenberg is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her research is multi-disciplinary, drawing from ethnomusicology, musicology, gender and women’s studies, and postcolonial theory. She has published articles on women’s laments in Corsica and music and French imperialism in the journals Current Musicology, Musical Quarterly, and Nineteenth-Century French Studies.

• Introduction: Musical Apprehensions Part 1: Apprehending Other Worlds: Musical Journeys in New and Old Empires 1. Imperial Ears: G.A. Villoteau and Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign (1798-1801) 2. The Music of France’s Lost Empire and the Romantic Travelogue Part 2: Apprehending France: The Meaning of Folksong Within and Without 3. Between Paris and the Provinces: Ideologies of Song and Folksong Collection 4. France's Furies: Women's Laments and the Imagination of Corsica

"Rosenberg presents a meaningful and significant contribution to scholarship in this field and makes a strong case that much is to be gained from further exploration along the lines she has begun to pursue in this book."- Kristy Barbacane, Columbia University