Description
About the Author
Katharine Ellis is 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge. She is widely published on the history of musical France in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her previous monographs cover canon-formation and the press, the early music revival, and Benedictine musical politics c.1900. She has been elected to the Academia Europaea, the British Academy, and the American Philosophical Society.
Reviews
All France is not Paris. Katharine Ellis trains her keen researcher's eye on concerts, opera, conservatories, and other aspects of music-making in Lyon and other French centers during the years from Berlioz to Les Six. Compendious, exquisitely precise, written with total clarity-and instantly indispensable. * Ralph P. Locke, Emeritus Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester, author of Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections *
Katharine Ellis's latest book, French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II, is a significant achievement. It is the first in-depth study of French music in relation to decentralization and cultural regionalism. The scale of the study, covering the complex musical dialogues between Paris and the regions and within the provinces themselves from the 1830s to the 1930s, will set a new standard for future scholarship within French cultural history. Beautifully written and argued with consummate subtlety and sophistication, Ellis brings to life musical institutions and music making from across France in ways that challenge and entice the reader. * Barbara L. Kelly, Director of Research and Professor of Musicology, Royal Northern College of Music *
The book offers a timely lesson in archive theory and provides a template for scholars interested in the power of local archives to undo previous under standings of music and politics. * Fanny Gribenski, New York University *
The book is big in the sense of importance, as local musical life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France has thus far only been researched piecemeal. * Madeline Roycroft, Musicology Australia *
Awards
Winner of Winner, Otto Kinkeldey Award for Outstanding Work of Musicological Scholarship, American Musicological Society.
Book Information
ISBN 9780197600160
Author Katharine Ellis
Format Hardback
Page Count 438
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 726g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 38mm