America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914 : Music, Revolution and Race /: Music, Revolution and Race. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Diana R. Hallman, Dr Ruth E. Rosenberg, Professor Annegret Fauser, Mark A. Pottinger, César A. Leal, César A. Leal, Diana R. Hallman, Prof. Marian E. Smith, Prof. Sarah Gutsche-Miller, Dr Helena Kopchick Spencer, Charlotte Bentley, Dr Laura Moore Pruett, Dr Douglas Shadle.
• Editors: Hallman, Diana R; Leal, César A
• Other Names: Dr Rosenberg, Dr Ruth E contributor.; Professor Fauser, Professor Annegret contributor.; Mark A. Pottinger, Mark A contributor.; Leal, César A contributor.; Hallman, Diana R contributor.; Prof Smith, Prof. Marian E contributor.; Prof Gutsche-Miller, Prof. Sarah contributor.; Dr Kopchick Spencer, Dr Helena contributor.; Bentley, Charlotte contributor.; Dr Pruett, Dr Laura Moore contributor.; Dr Shadle, Dr Douglas contributor.
• Contents: Introduction; ; Part I. American liberté, sauvagerie and esclavage ; 1 Between Amérique and Colonial France: Revolutionary Tales of liberté and esclavage Diana R. Hallman; 2 Justamant's Le Bossu and Depictions of Indigenous Americans in Nineteenth-Century French Ballet; Marian Smith, Sarah Gutsche-Miller and Helena Kopchick Spencer; 3 Louisiana Imagined: Gender, Race and Slavery in Le Planteur (1839); Helena Kopchick Spencer; ; Part II. Myths of America and Intersecting Identities; 4 'Brise du Sud': American Identity and War in the Popular Sheet Music of Francophone New Orleans; Charlotte Bentley; 5 'The Most Seductive Creole Indolence': Louis Moreau Gottschalk in the French Press; Laura 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 Fantasies; 7 Historical Acoustemology in the French Romantic Travelogue: Chateaubriand's Sonic Imagining of the New World; Ruth E. Rosenberg; 8 La Liberté éclairant le monde: Transatlantic Soundscapes for the Statue of Liberty; Annegret Fauser; ; Part IV. America, Commodification and Race at the fin de siècle 9 Buffalo Bill and the Sound of America at the 1889 World's Fair; Mark A. Pottinger; 10 Cakewalking in Paris: New Representations and Contexts of African American Culture; César A. Leal; ; Bibliography; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (368 pages)
• Subjects: MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Ballet; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera; HISTORY / Europe / France; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; HISTORY / North America; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); 20th century & contemporary classical music; Ballet; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Colonialism & imperialism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800105393; 1800105398
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