Composing the citizen : music as public utility in Third Republic France

Cover
 Title
 Copyright
 Contents
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction. Paris: A Walking Tour
 Topographies of Power: The Semiotics of the Parisian Landscape
 Negotiating Life in the City
 New Promenades in the Aural Landscapes of Paris
 The Legacy of the Third Republic
 PART ONE: FORMING PUBLIC SPIRIT AND USEFUL CITIZENS
 1 Use, the Useful, and Public Utility: A Theory of Musical Value
 Tensions between the Useful and the Beautiful
 Satisfying Social Needs and Creating the Nation
 Music as Utilité Publique
 2 Reinscribing the Revolutionary Legacy
 Public Instruction of Mind and Heart. Music in Public FestivalsNational Institutions
 Music, Character, and the Utility of Gender
 PART TWO: SHAPING JUDGMENT AND NATIONAL TASTE
 3 Music as Political Culture: From Active Listening to Active Citizenship
 Political Legitimacy and Civic Society
 Republican Pedagogy, Cultural Integration, and Citizenship
 Performance and Public Taste under the Moral Order
 4 Regenerating National Pride: Musical Progress and International Glory
 Moral and Musical Progress
 Exporting French Music and French Values
 Arts Policy and the Utility of Competition
 Contradictions and Paradoxes. PART THREE: INSTITUTING REPUBLICAN CULTURE5 Imagining a New Nation through Music: New Traditions, New History
 Enacting Change at Schools and the Opéra
 Reevaluating Luxury and the Question of Opera
 Renarrating the Revolution
 Reconceiving Music History
 6 An Ideology of Diversity, Eclecticism, and Pleasure
 Cultivating Aesthetic Tolerance
 Redefining Music's Utilité Publique
 Exploring Uncharted Territory
 7 Musical Hybridity and the Challenges of Colonialism
 Musical Fantasies Fueling Colonialist Desire
 Music and Colonial Assumptions
 Songs Inspiring Resistance. 8 Useful Distractions and Economic Liberalism in the Belle EpoqueDepartment Stores
 Competition in the Musical World
 Expanded Performance Opportunities, Including for Women
 Theater and Popular Entertainment
 PART FOUR: SHIFTING NOTIONS OF UTILITY: BETWEEN THE NATION AND THE SELF
 9 Music as Resistance and an Emerging Avant-garde
 Reviving Memory of the Ancien Régime
 Wagner's Threatening Allure
 Art beyond Politics, Music of and for the Mind
 Intuition and Radically New Concepts of Music
 10 The Symbolic Utility of Music at the 1889 Universal Exhibition
 Republican Values on Display. The Utility of Exotic MusicThe Exhibition in Retrospect
 11 New Alliances and New Music
 Mandating Change
 The New Left's Hopes
 The New Right's Progressism in Politics and Music
 Revisiting Musique ancienne et moderne
 12 The Dynamics of Identity and the Struggle for Distinction
 Race and French History
 Listening through Women
 Fusion versus Distinction
 From the Useful to the Healthy
 Coda
 Appendix A. Important Political and Musical Events in the Early Third Republic
 Appendix B. References in Ménestrel to Performances of French Operas Abroad, 1872-1888.