Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France

Contents

• Preface
• 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 1 . 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 Utilite Publique 2. Reinscribing
• Part 2 . 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
• Part 3 . Instituting Republican Culture 5. Imagining a New Nation through Music: New Traditions, New History Enacting Change at Schools and the Opera--Reevaluating Luxury and the Question of Opera--Renarrating the Revolution--Reconceiving Music History 6.
• Part 4 . Shifting Notions of Utility: Between the Nation and the Self 9. Music as Resistance and an Emerging Avant-garde Reviving Memory of the Ancien Regime--Wagner's Threatening Allure--Art beyond Politics, Music of and for the Mind--Intuition and Radic
• Appendix A. Important Political and Musical Events in the Early Third Republic
• Appendix B.
• References in Menestrel to Performances of French Operas Abroad, 1872-1888
• Appendix C. Selected Publications on Revolutionary Music after 1870 List of Illustrations List of Musical Examples Illustration Credits
• Index