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About the Author
BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds ANNEGRET FAUSER, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds STEVEN HUEBNER is the James McGill Professor (musicology) at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. JAMES ROSS is Reader in Late Medieval History at the University of Winchester, UK. He has published extensively on the late medieval nobility, kingship and political society.
Reviews
This brilliant series of publications now offers . . . this rich and fascinating portrait of the relationships between artistic creation and the representation of national identity during the Third Republic. . . . The volume contains some twenty illustrations that make the reading most pleasurable. In sum, a remarkable contribution, and an essential work for those who are interested in French cultural history. -- Marie-Noelle Lavoie * INTERSECTIONS (CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MUSIC/REVUE CANADIENNE DE MUSIQUE) *
A distinguished collection of essays that will support and influence research on the fin-de-siecle for some time . . . An essential resource that deserves a place in the collection of every French scholar and academic music library. -- Keith E. Clifton * FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE *
Each contribution [i.e., chapter] adds to the growing literature on a musical, cultural, and political epoch that is rich in history and deep in complexity. . . . The volume is essential reading for the Francophile. -- Brian Doherty * MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES *
A compelling statement about the complexity of relationship between politics and art, culture and national identity, especially in fin-de siecle France, but also in many places and times besides. . . . [Individual chapters are] detailed and nuanced; concise, well-argued, and thoroughly documented. . . . The volume is historically rooted in the best ways. . . . The exploration of this ambivalence [at the time, about how French nationalism should be reflected in music] makes for a powerful statement. Accessible to musicologists and historians alike. A model for exploring the often-repeated, yet open-ended connections between music and politics, culture and identity. -- Sindhumathi Revuluri * JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH *
Excellent essays by a lively mix of writers in different historical disciplines.... An indispensable source for anyone fascinated by fin-de-siecle France. -- Carlo Caballero (University of Colorado), author of Faure and French Musical Aesthetics * . *
Advances an interpretive line that comes through with crystal clarity. . . . Music history and history tout court have more often than not pursued parallel paths, the one uninformed by the other. . . . The present volume will carry this conversation a valuable step further, and for this it deserves the gratitude of historians and musicologists alike. -- Philip Nord * H-FRANCE REVIEW *
Book Information
ISBN 9781580462723
Author Barbara L. Kelly
Format Hardback
Page Count 285
Imprint University of Rochester Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g