The triumph of pleasure : Louis XIV & the politics of spectacle

The triumph of pleasure : Louis XIV & the politics of spectacle / Georgia J. Cowart.

Author/creator	Cowart, Georgia
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description	xxiii, 299 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715. Music--Social aspects --France. Music--Political aspects --France. Ballet--France --History --17th century. Ballet--France --History --18th century. Musical theater--France --History --17th century. Musical theater--France --History --18th century. France--Court and courtiers --History --17th century. France--Court and courtiers --History --18th century.

Contents	Muses of pleasure: Louis XIV's early court ballet, 1651-1660 -- Muses of memory: Louis XIV's late court ballet, 1661-1669 -- Muses of satire: Le bourgeois gentilhomme & the utopia of spectacle -- Tragic interlude: reversals at the Paris Opéra, 1671-1697 -- Sappho, Cythera & the triumph of love: the ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1700-1713 -- Carnival, commedia dell'arte & the triumph of folly: the ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1699-1718 -- Watteau's Cythera, the opéra-ballet & the staging of pleasure.
Abstract	Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, the author tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-279) and index.
LCCN	2008019417
ISBN	9780226116389 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0226116387 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Music	Music Stacks	ML3917.F5 C69 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold