Singing the Fronde: Placards, Street Songs, and Performed Politics. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Singing the Fronde: Placards, Street Songs, and Performed Politics. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)
- Main Title:
- Singing the Fronde: Placards, Street Songs, and Performed Politics
- Authors:
- Romey, John
- Abstract:
- Abstract : The Fronde generated vast amounts of ephemeral printed media that circulated polemical information and shaped public discourse. Pamphlets, street songs, and placards, known as mazarinades, survive as artefacts of performances that jostled for attention in chaotic urban public spaces. In this article I analyse three placards produced during the Fronde to demonstrate their utilitarian function as a tool of mass communication that sometimes incorporated songs drawn from the repertoires of literary elites and street singers. When a placard was read à haute voix or an inscribed song was sung, these objects engendered performances that filled Paris's public spaces with political propaganda. Because songs printed on placards set new texts to pre-existing tunes, the layering of songs fostered webs of intertextual and intermusical references. By determining the significance of a particular tune to contemporary audiences, we can enrich textual and visual analyses and begin to determine how different social groups might have responded to the mazarinades . Through song, individuals participated in communal social acts that memorialized contemporary events and forged connections with events in living memory. Placards, then, illustrate how effective political messaging in early modern Paris in part translated to controlling the urban soundscape.
- Is Part Of:
- Early modern French studies. Volume 41:Issue 1(2019)
- Journal:
- Early modern French studies
- Issue:
- Volume 41:Issue 1(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 41, Issue 1 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 41
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0041-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 52
- Page End:
- 73
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-02
- Subjects:
- Fronde -- street song -- ephemera -- mazarinades -- soundscapes -- placards -- chanson
French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Civilization
French literature
France -- Civilization -- 1328-1600 -- Periodicals
France -- Civilization -- 17th century -- Periodicals
France -- Civilization -- 18th century -- Periodicals
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Periodicals
944.03 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.maneyonline.com/loi/emf ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemf20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/20563035.2019.1612563 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2056-3035
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 10837.xml