Fanfare for a city : music and the urban imagination in Haussmann's Paris / Jacek Blaszkiewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaszkiewicz, Jacek, 1988- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--France--Paris--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Opera--France--Paris--19th century.

Opera.

Street musicians--France--Paris.

Street musicians.

Urbanization--France--19th century.

Urbanization.

France--History--Second Empire, 1852-1870.

France.

France--Paris.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Physical Description:

xi, 250 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (1852-1870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital. By exploring the sonic worlds of exhibitions, cafés, streets, and markets, Jacek Blaszkiewicz shows how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about le nouveau Paris: a metropolis at a crossroads between its classical, Roman past and its capitalist, imperial future. At the heart of the narrative is 'Baron' Haussmann, the engineer of imperial urbanism and the inspiration for a range of musical responses to modernity, from the enthusiastic to the nostalgic. Drawing on theoretical approaches from historical musicology, urban sociology, and sound studies to shed light on newly surfaced archival material, Fanfare for a City argues that urbanism was a driving force in how nineteenth-century music was produced, performed, and policed"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Baron Haussmann's musical imagination

Fanfare city : the Expositions universelles

Urban planning lessons from the café-concert

Street music : between regulation and liberation

Street cries : constructing the old city

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Blaszkiewicz, Jacek, 1988- Fanfare for a city

ISBN:

9780520393479

0520393473

OCLC:

1374242783