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Listening in Paris : a cultural history / James H. Johnson.
| Author/creator | Johnson, James H., 1960- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995. |
| Description | xvi, 384 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies on the history of society and culture ; 21 Studies on the history of society and culture 21. ^A228609 |
| Contents | Part one. The rendezvous of the rich. Opera as social duty -- Expression as imitation -- Part two. A sensitive public. Tears and the new attentiveness -- Concerts in the Old Regime -- Harmony's passions and the public -- Part three. The exaltation of the masses. Entertainment and the revolution -- Musical experience of the terror -- Musical expression and Jacobin ideology -- Thermidor and the return of entertainment -- Part four. Respectability and the bourgeoisie. Napoleon's show -- The Théâtre Italien and its elites -- The birth of public concerts -- In search of harmony's sentiments -- The social roots of silence -- Part five. The musical experience of romanticism. Operatic rebirth and the return of grandeur -- Beethoven triumphant -- The musical experience of romanticism. |
| Abstract | This book grew from a simple question. Why did French audiences become silent? Eighteenth-century travelers' accounts of the Paris Opera and memoirs of concertgoers describe a busy, preoccupied public, at times loud and at others merely sociable, but seldom deeply attentive. |
| Local note | Little-328225--3051310259972 |
| General note | Based on author's dissertation (doctoral)-- University of Chicago, 1988. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-377) and index. |
| LCCN | 94006492 |
| ISBN | 0520085647 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML270 .J64 1995 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |