Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rosenberg, Ruth E.

Titel

Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-century France: Musical Apprehensions

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other &dquotemusical travelers&dquote in 19th-century France. Each of the book's discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site of empire, examining French representations of musical encounters in North America, the Middle East, as well as in contested areas within the borders of metropolitan France. Rosenberg highlights intersections between an emergent ethnographie musicale in France and narratives of musical encounter found in French travel literature, connecting both phenomena to France's imperial aspirations and nationalist anxieties in the period from the Revolution to the late-nineteenth century. It is therefore an excellent research tool for scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, musicology, cultural studies, literary history, and postcolonial studies.