Hallman / Leal America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914

Music, Revolution and Race
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-539-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Music in Society and Culture

Just as America was observed in French literary and political commentary, we find representations of America in French music, dance, and theatre which serve as the focus of this volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hallman, Diana R.

Leal, César A.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hallman, Diana R.

Smith, Marian E.

Gutsche-Miller, Sarah

Kopchick Spencer, Helena

Bentley, Charlotte

Pruett, Laura Moore

Shadle, Douglas

Rosenberg, Ruth E.

Fauser, Annegret

Mark A. Pottinger, Mark A.

Leal, César A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 siècle9 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

Über Autor(innen)

Hallman Diana R.:
DIANA R. HALLMAN is Professor of Musicology, University Research Professor, and Coordinator of the Opera Research Alliance at the University of Kentucky.Leal César A.:
CÉSAR A. LEAL is Assistant Professor and Director of Orchestral Activities in the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. He also served as musicology professor and conductor at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN.Hallman Diana R.:
DIANA R. HALLMAN is Professor of Musicology, University Research Professor, and Coordinator of the Opera Research Alliance at the University of Kentucky.Fauser Annegret:
ANNEGRET FAUSER, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillLeal César A.:
CÉSAR A. LEAL is Assistant Professor and Director of Orchestral Activities in the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. He also served as musicology professor and conductor at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN.