Ruth Rosenberg

Gebundenes Buch

Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France

Musical Apprehensions

Beschreibung

This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other "musical travelers" 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.

Autor

Ruth E. Rosenberg is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her research is multi-disciplinary, drawing from ethnomusicology, musicology, gender and women's studies, and postcolonial theory. She has published articles on women's laments in Corsica and music and French imperialism in the journals Current Musicology, Musical Quarterly, and Nineteenth-Century French Studies.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781138777996
• ISBN-10: 1138777994
• Artikelnr.: 40580691

Rezensionen

"Rosenberg presents a meaningful and significant contribution to scholarship in this field and makes a strong case that much is to be gained from further exploration along the lines she has begun to pursue in this book."

- Kristy Barbacane, Columbia University