Musical encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
By: Annegret Fauser.
Series: Eastman studies in music,; v. 32
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Music -- France -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Music -- Social aspects -- France
Description: "Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the Exposition Universelle. It thereby also reveals the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-374) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the soundscape of the 1889 Exposition universelle; title: Exhibiting music at the Exposition universelle; title: Opera, ballet, and the politics of French identity; title: The Republic's muse : Augusta Holmès's Ode triomphale; title: French encounters with the Far East; title: Belly dancers, gypsies, and French peasants; title: The marvels of technology.