Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914

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Annegret Fauser, Mark Everist
University of Chicago Press, Dec 15, 2009 - Music - 456 pages

Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the “capital of the nineteenth century.” The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its international impact, Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer explores the diverse institutions that shaped Parisian music and extended its influence across Europe, the Americas, and Australia.

The contributors to this volume, who work in fields ranging from literature to theater to musicology, focus on the city’s musical theater scene as a whole rather than on individual theaters or repertories. Their broad range enables their collective examination of the ways in which all aspects of performance and reception were affected by the transfer of works, performers, and management models from one environment to another. By focusing on this interplay between institutions and individuals, the authors illuminate the tension between institutional conventions and artistic creation during the heady period when Parisian stage music reached its zenith.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Part I Institutions
9
Part II Cultural Transfer
155
Part III The Midi and Spain or Autour de Carmen
291
A Documentary Overview of Musical Theaters in Paris 18301900
379
Bibliography
403
Contributors
425
Index
429
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Annegret Fauser is professor of music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mark Everist is professor of music at the University of Southampton.

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