Title: Singing the French Revolution
First published: 1996
Description: Laura Mason examines the shifting fortunes of singing as a political gesture to highlight the importance of popular culture to revolutionary politics. Arguing that scholars have overstated the uniformity of revolutionary political culture, Mason uses songwriting and singing practices to reveal its diverse nature.

Song performances in the streets, theaters, and clubs of Paris showed how popular culture was invested with new political meaning after 1789, becoming one of the most important means for engaging in revolutionary debate.
Subjects: Popular culture, History and criticism, Revolutionary ballads and songs, History, War songs, Popular culture, france, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799
Places: France
Time periods: Revolution, 1789-1799, 18th century
LC classification: ML3621.R48 M37 1996