• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Paris: A Walking Tour Topographies of Power: The Semiotics of the Parisian Landscape--Negotiating Life in the City--New Promenades in the Aural Landscapes of Paris--The Legacy of the Third Republic
• Part 1. Forming Public Spirit and Useful Citizens
• 1. Use, the Useful, and Public Utility: A Theory of Musical Value Tensions between the Useful and the Beautiful--Satisfying Social Needs and Creating the Nation--Music as Utilite Publique
• 2. Reinscribing the Revolutionary Legacy Public Instruction of Mind and Heart--Music in Public Festivals--National Institutions--Music, Character, and the Utility of Gender
• Part 2. Shaping Judgment and National Taste
• 3. Music as Political Culture: From Active Listening to Active Citizenship Political Legitimacy and Civic Society--Republican Pedagogy, Cultural Integration, and Citizenship--Performance and Public Taste under the Moral Order
• 4. Regenerating National Pride: Musical Progress and International Glory Moral and Musical Progress--Exporting French Music and French Values--Arts Policy and the Utility of Competition--Contradictions and Paradoxes
• Part 3. Instituting Republican Culture
• 5. Imagining a New Nation through Music: New Traditions, New History Enacting Change at Schools and the Opera--Reevaluating Luxury and the Question of Opera--Renarrating the Revolution--Reconceiving Music History
• 6. An Ideology of Diversity, Eclecticism, and Pleasure Promoting Diversity and Eclecticism--Redefining Music's Utilite Publique--Exploring Uncharted Territory
• 7. Musical Hybridity and the Challenges of Colonialism Musical Fantasies Fueling Colonialist Desire--Music and Colonial Assumptions--Songs Inspiring Resistance
• 8. Useful Distractions and Economic Liberalism in the Belle Epoque Department Stores--Competition in the Musical World--Expanded Performance Opportunities, Including for Women--Theater and Popular Entertainment
• Part 4. Shifting Notions of Utility: Between the Nation and the Self
• 9. Music as Resistance and an Emerging Avant-garde Reviving Memory of the Ancien Regime--Wagner's Threatening Allure--Art beyond Politics, Music of and for the Mind--Intuition and Radically New Concepts of Music
• 10. The Symbolic Utility of Music at the 1889 Universal Exhibition Republican Values on Display--The Utility of Exotic Music--The Exhibition in Retrospect
• 11. New Alliances and New Music Mandating Change--The New Left's Hopes--The New Right's Alliances in Politics and Music--Revisiting Musique ancienne et moderne
• 12. The Dynamics of Identity and the Struggle for Distinction Race and French History--Listening through Women-Fusion versus Distinction--From the Useful to the Healthy Coda Appendix A. Important Political and Musical Events in the Early Third Republic Appendix B. References in Menestrel to Performances of French Operas Abroad, 1872-1888 Appendix C. Selected Publications on Revolutionary Music after 1870 List of Illustrations List of Musical Examples Illustration Credits Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

In a book that challenges modernist ideas about the value and role of music in Western society, "Composing the Citizen" demonstrates how music can help forge a nation. Deftly exploring the history of Third Republic France, Jann Pasler shows how French people from all classes and political persuasions looked to music to revitalize the country after the turbulent crises of 1871. Embraced not as a luxury but for its 'public utility', music became an object of public policy as integral to modern life as power and water, a way to teach critical judgment and inspire national pride. It helped people to forget the past, voice conflicting aspirations, and imagine a shared future. Based on a dazzling survey of archival material, Pasler's rich interdisciplinary work looks beyond elites and the histories their agendas have dominated to open new windows onto the musical tastes and practices of amateurs as well as professionals. This title presents a fascinating history of the period emerges, one rooted in political realities and the productive tensions between the political and the aesthetic. Highly evocative and deeply humanistic, "Composing the Citizen" ignites broad debates about music's role in democracy and its meaning in our lives.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Musical Paris-- the salons and their music-- singers in their salons-- the all-pervasive romance-- the romance and Romanticism-- Paris discovers the songs of Schubert-- Romance into melodie-- reaching out to full-bloom-- postscript. Appendices: List of private salons, their singers and songs as reported in "Le Menestrel", "La Revue et Gazette Musicale" and "Le Monde Musicale"-- Schubert's songs in French, published by Richault-- extracts from "L'Art de chanter les Romances, les Chanonnettes et les Nocturnse et les Nocturnse et generalement toute la musicque de salon...par A. Romagnesis" (1846)-- "La Premiere Romance", "L'Echo Musicale", September 1839, J. Stadler-- extract from
• chapter XXI of Jules Janin's "The American in Paris" (London, 1843).
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

No other society wrote about itself so fervently - and so often - so wittily as did that of 19th century Paris. Through diaries, letters, memoirs, and above all, the music periodicals of the day we can gain a glimpse of the ebullient musical life of the capital, even entering doors of private salons, many of which included musical performances that were reported on by critics of the day. Performances in these fashionable salons, which almost invariably included songs, provided musicians with many professional oppurtunities. Looking at the private salons in Paris, to which reporters of "La Revue Musical" and the like attended, this title recognises the musical trends and fashions in the capital. But as the musical salons were only a part of the scene, the book also discusses the public recitals or concerts and the wider context of Paris which, in turn, needs to be placed in the frame of those events that shaped French society in one of the most turbulent centuries in its history.
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• Musique et société
• Les premières sociétés de musique
• L'organisation des sociétés de musique
• Les tenues et les uniformes
• Les sorties musicales
• Les distinctions personnelles
• Le kiosque à musique
• La musique pendant la Première Guerre mondiale
• Les relations des sociétés de musique avec la Municipalité
• La formation musicale
• Les ensembles instrumentaux
• L'Union Musicale
• Les Mandolinistes Seclinois
• La Symphonie Seclinoise
• La symphonie L'Amicale
• La Prolétarienne
• Les ensembles de jazz
• Les ensembles vocaux
• L'Orphéon Seclinois
• La chanson dans la communauté ouvrière
• Les Compagnons de la Joie
• D'autres aspects de la vie musicale
• L'orgue de la collégiale Saint-Piat
• Le carillon de la collégiale Saint-Piat
• Le bataillon scolaire de Seclin
• La musique mécanique.

"L'histoire d'une ville est comme une fresque où, à travers le temps et l'espace, se profilent des visages, apparaissent des dates, surgissent des événements heureux ou dramatiques, se dressent maisons et édifices publics qu'entoure un décor de champs et de bois. Seclin, c'est tout cela, et son histoire est riche car le martyre de saint Piat lui a donné une renommée bien au-delà du Mélantois. Et, d'année en année, les fouilles du Centre archéologique municipal ramènent à la surface des éléments de son passé. Le labeur des femmes et des hommes, leur vie sociale et de solidarité, les invasions, ont marqué la ville. Mais ses habitants ont su également, malgré les épreuves, prendre le temps de se détendre : la musique en a été l'un des moyens. Ce livre retrace l'empreinte de la musique à Seclin, de l'époque de la Révolution française jusqu'à rios jours. Il décrit les différentes sociétés et aussi les petits groupes de musiciens et les carillonneurs qui, depuis deux siècles, ont égayé la ville, accompagné ses jours de fête ou ceux de deuils, porté au loin les couleurs de la cité, brillé dans des festivals et ont aussi formé des jeunes pour que sans cesse, de génération en génération, les relais s'effectuent. A travers ces pages, défilent des personnages qui se sont totalement investis dans cette mission. Magnifique mission car la musique participe à la beauté du monde et rassemble dans un langage universel les femmes et les hommes de toutes origines. Philippe Bacqueville avait contribué, en 2007, à faire connaître tout un aspect du passé de Seclin, en publiant Seclin 1914-1918, Histoire d'une occupation. Ici, historien des notes, c'est une véritable richesse humaine qu'il met en exergue en partageant, dans un ouvrage très documenté et passionnant, ce qu'il a recueilli au cours de ses minutieuses recherches."--P. [4] of cover.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Paris: A Walking Tour Topographies of Power: The Semiotics of the Parisian Landscape--Negotiating Life in the City--New Promenades in the Aural Landscapes of Paris--The Legacy of the Third Republic
• Part 1. Forming Public Spirit and Useful Citizens
• 1. Use, the Useful, and Public Utility: A Theory of Musical Value Tensions between the Useful and the Beautiful--Satisfying Social Needs and Creating the Nation--Music as Utilite Publique
• 2. Reinscribing the Revolutionary Legacy Public Instruction of Mind and Heart--Music in Public Festivals--National Institutions--Music, Character, and the Utility of Gender
• Part 2. Shaping Judgment and National Taste
• 3. Music as Political Culture: From Active Listening to Active Citizenship Political Legitimacy and Civic Society--Republican Pedagogy, Cultural Integration, and Citizenship--Performance and Public Taste under the Moral Order
• 4. Regenerating National Pride: Musical Progress and International Glory Moral and Musical Progress--Exporting French Music and French Values--Arts Policy and the Utility of Competition--Contradictions and Paradoxes
• Part 3. Instituting Republican Culture
• 5. Imagining a New Nation through Music: New Traditions, New History Enacting Change at Schools and the Opera--Reevaluating Luxury and the Question of Opera--Renarrating the Revolution--Reconceiving Music History
• 6. An Ideology of Diversity, Eclecticism, and Pleasure Promoting Diversity and Eclecticism--Redefining Music's Utilite Publique--Exploring Uncharted Territory
• 7. Musical Hybridity and the Challenges of Colonialism Musical Fantasies Fueling Colonialist Desire--Music and Colonial Assumptions--Songs Inspiring Resistance
• 8. Useful Distractions and Economic Liberalism in the Belle Epoque Department Stores--Competition in the Musical World--Expanded Performance Opportunities, Including for Women--Theater and Popular Entertainment
• Part 4. Shifting Notions of Utility: Between the Nation and the Self
• 9. Music as Resistance and an Emerging Avant-garde Reviving Memory of the Ancien Regime--Wagner's Threatening Allure--Art beyond Politics, Music of and for the Mind--Intuition and Radically New Concepts of Music
• 10. The Symbolic Utility of Music at the 1889 Universal Exhibition Republican Values on Display--The Utility of Exotic Music--The Exhibition in Retrospect
• 11. New Alliances and New Music Mandating Change--The New Left's Hopes--The New Right's Alliances in Politics and Music--Revisiting Musique ancienne et moderne
• 12. The Dynamics of Identity and the Struggle for Distinction Race and French History--Listening through Women-Fusion versus Distinction--From the Useful to the Healthy Coda Appendix A. Important Political and Musical Events in the Early Third Republic Appendix B. References in Menestrel to Performances of French Operas Abroad, 1872-1888 Appendix C. Selected Publications on Revolutionary Music after 1870 List of Illustrations List of Musical Examples Illustration Credits Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

In a book that challenges modernist ideas about the value and role of music in Western society, "Composing the Citizen" demonstrates how music can help forge a nation. Deftly exploring the history of Third Republic France, Jann Pasler shows how French people from all classes and political persuasions looked to music to revitalize the country after the turbulent crises of 1871. Embraced not as a luxury but for its 'public utility', music became an object of public policy as integral to modern life as power and water, a way to teach critical judgment and inspire national pride. It helped people to forget the past, voice conflicting aspirations, and imagine a shared future. Based on a dazzling survey of archival material, Pasler's rich interdisciplinary work looks beyond elites and the histories their agendas have dominated to open new windows onto the musical tastes and practices of amateurs as well as professionals. This title presents a fascinating history of the period emerges, one rooted in political realities and the productive tensions between the political and the aesthetic. Highly evocative and deeply humanistic, "Composing the Citizen" ignites broad debates about music's role in democracy and its meaning in our lives.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)