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Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces
Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces provides the first fundamental reconsideration of music's role in the relationship between the French state and the Catholic Church in the Third Republic, revealing how composers and critics from often opposing ideological factions undermined the secular/sacred binary through composition and musical performance.
Art and Ideology in European Opera
Opera, that most extravagant of the performing arts, is infused with the contexts of power-brokering and cultural display in which it was conceived and experienced. For individual operas such contexts have shifted over time and new meanings emerged, often quite remote from those intended by the original collaborators; but tracing this ideological dimension in a work's creation and reception enables us to understand its cultural and political role more clearly - sometimes conflicting with its status as art and sometimes enhancing it. This collection is a Festschrift in honour of Julian Rushton, one of the most distinguished opera scholars of his generation and highly regarded for his innovati...
Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance
Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance situates the 1908 dance craze, which The New York Times called “Salomania,” as a crucial event and a turning point in the history of the modern business of erotic dance. Framing Salomania with reference to imperial ideologies of motherhood and race, it works toward better understanding the increasing value of the display of the undressed female body in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This study turns critical attention to cultures of maternity in the late 19th century, primarily with reference to the ways in which women are defined in relation to their genitals as patriarchal property and space and are valued a...
French Musical Life
French Musical Life is a study of French musical centralization and its discontents during the period leading up to and beyond the "provincial awakening" of the Belle Époque.
The Florists' Review
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Acta Musicologica
Vols. 3-24 include Index novorum librorum.
Musique et chorégraphie en France de Léo Delibes à Florent Schmitt
Sept études consacrées à la musique et la danse au cours des années reliant la fin de l'époque romantique à l'avènement des Ballets russes.
