Composing the citizen : music as public utility in Third Republic France

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In a work that challenges modernists ideas about the value and role of music in Western society, 'Composing the Citizen' demonstrates how music can help forge a nation. Cover Title Copyright Contents 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 ONE: 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 Utilité Publique 2 Reinscribing the Revolutionary Legacy Public Instruction of Mind and Heart. Music in Public FestivalsNational Institutions Music, Character, and the Utility of Gender PART TWO: 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 THREE: INSTITUTING REPUBLICAN CULTURE5 Imagining a New Nation through Music: New Traditions, New History Enacting Change at Schools and the Opéra Reevaluating Luxury and the Question of Opera Renarrating the Revolution Reconceiving Music History 6 An Ideology of Diversity, Eclecticism, and Pleasure Cultivating Aesthetic Tolerance Redefining Music's Utilité 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 EpoqueDepartment Stores Competition in the Musical World Expanded Performance Opportunities, Including for Women Theater and Popular Entertainment PART FOUR: SHIFTING NOTIONS OF UTILITY: BETWEEN THE NATION AND THE SELF 9 Music as Resistance and an Emerging Avant-garde Reviving Memory of the Ancien Régime 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 MusicThe Exhibition in Retrospect 11 New Alliances and New Music Mandating Change The New Left's Hopes The New Right's Progressism 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 Ménestrel to Performances of French Operas Abroad, 1872-1888.