America in the French imaginary, 1789 -1914 : music, revolution and race /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
Boydell Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Music in society and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Between Amérique and colonial France : revolutionary tales of liberté and esclavage / Diana R. Hallman
- Justamant's Le bossu and depictions of Indigenous Americans in nineteenth-century French ballet / Marian Smith, Sarah Gutsche-Miller and Helena Kopchick Spencer
- Louisiana imagined : gender, race and slavery in Le planteur (1839) / Helena Kopchick-Spencer
- "Brise du Sud": American identity and war in the popular sheet music of francophone New Orleans / Charlotte Bentley
- "The most seductive Creole indolence" : Louis Moreau Gottschalk in the French press / Laura Moore Pruett
- Symphonies from the new world : the myths and realities of American orchestral music in France / Douglas W. Shadle
- Historical acoustemology in the French romantic travelogue : Chateaubriand's sonic imagining of the new world / Ruth E. Rosenberg
- La liberté éclairant le monde : transatlantic soundscapes for the Statue of Liberty / Annegret Fauser
- Buffalo Bill and the sound of America during the 1889 world's fair / Mark A. Pottinger
- Cakewalking in Paris : new representations and contexts of African American culture / César A. Leal.
