French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II

by Katharine Ellis

Explicitly or not, the historical musicology of post-Revolutionary France has focused on Paris as a proxy for the rest of the country. This distorting lens is the legacy of political and cultural struggle during the long nineteenth century, indicating a French Revolution unresolved both then and now. In light of the capital's power as the seat of a centralizing French state (which provincials found 'colonizing') and as a cosmopolitan musical crossroads...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197600166
• ISBN13: 9780197600160
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.6" x 6.7"