{"product_id":"fanfare-for-a-city-music-and-the-urban-imagination-in-haussmanns-paris-hardcover","title":"Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann's Paris - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacek Blaszkiewicz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFanfare for a City\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (1852-1870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital. By exploring the sonic worlds of exhibitions, caf駸, streets, and markets, Jacek Blaszkiewicz shows how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about \u003ci\u003ele nouveau Paris: \u003c\/i\u003e a metropolis at a crossroads between its classical, Roman past and its capitalist, imperial future. At the heart of the narrative is \"Baron\" Haussmann, the engineer of imperial urbanism and the inspiration for a range of musical responses to modernity, from the enthusiastic to the nostalgic. Drawing on theoretical approaches from historical musicology, urban sociology, and sound studies to shed light on newly surfaced archival material, \u003ci\u003eFanfare for a City\u003c\/i\u003e argues that urbanism was a driving force in how nineteenth-century music was produced, performed, and policed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully organized through contrast and variation evocative of a musical composition, \u003ci\u003eFanfare for a City\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively and engaging work of scholarship on music, urban space, and power. Jacek Blaszkiewicz convincingly traces how Baron Haussmann's individual taste in music shaped the tuning of Paris's urban design and policy, and conversely how Haussmannization had a lasting impact on musical spaces and tastes.--Aim馥 Boutin, author of \u003ci\u003eCity of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An important contribution to the literature on Baron Haussmann's famous reconfiguration of Paris during the Second Empire. Blaszkiewicz expertly maps musical life of the period onto the rapidly changing cityscape. In its move away from traditional methods and engagement with the burgeoning field of sound studies, this work offers a refreshing perspective on wider musical culture beyond the opera house, concert hall, and salon.\"\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eSteven Huebner, author of \u003ci\u003eLes op駻as de Verdi: ﾉl駑ents d'un langage musico-dramatique\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eFanfare for a City\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates in fascinating detail that the making of modern Paris in the nineteenth century was as much a matter of sound as of space. The book--highly readable, deeply informative--is a major contribution to a growing body of literature that recognizes sound as a fundamental cultural force.\"--Lawrence Kramer, author of \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Forms of Life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A sophisticated and rich exploration of the relationship between music and its urban environment, which sheds new light on little-studied musical phenomena, including street hawkers, as well as more familiar environments, such as world's fairs and caf駸-concerts, all in the context of Haussmann's urban renewal project in Second Empire Paris.\"--Sarah Hibberd, author of \u003ci\u003eFrench Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Deeply researched and engagingly written, \u003ci\u003eFanfare for a City \u003c\/i\u003ehas a great deal to teach us about the contested soundscapes of Second Empire Paris. A very impressive work.\"--Brian Hart, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Symphonic Repertoire, Volume V: The Symphony in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacek Blaszkiewicz\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Music History at Wayne State University. His articles on French music and urban culture have appeared in \u003ci\u003e19th-Century Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCambridge Opera Journal, Current Musicology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Musicology, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOpera Quarterly.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.2 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51781571772704,"sku":"9780520393479","price":117.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e6f0cbe3be907631f280f5a09f55cc50.webp?v=1780553435","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fanfare-for-a-city-music-and-the-urban-imagination-in-haussmanns-paris-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}