Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780271084718
Description: "An interpretation of early modern Paris demonstrating that sound was as important as vision during the reign of Louis XIV. Discloses myriad ways in which sound generated an interpenetration of elite and popular culture, revealing complex acoustic dimensions of class, politics, sexuality, and punishment"--