City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris

by Aimee Boutin

Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the odium of the bourgeois with its distinctive sounds. Street vendors bellowed songs known as the Cris de Paris that had been associated with their trades since the Middle Ages; musicians itinerant and otherwise played for chan≥ and fl'neurs-writers, fascinated with the city's underside, listened and recorded much about what they heard. Aimée Boutin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252039211
• ISBN13: 9780252039218
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"