From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution
Autor Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwindenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 apr 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197511510
ISBN-10: 0197511511
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 164 x 240 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197511511
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 164 x 240 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Geoffroy-Schwinden's study is a model of its kind.
Geoffroy-Schwinden provides a compelling new framework for investigating the politics of music-making in the French Enlightenment, one rooted in the ethics and practices of musicians' labour. This study has the potential permanently to upend our understanding of the musical work in the eighteenth century by offering novel ways of looking at old problems of Revolutionary historiography.
This interesting book provides documentary and archival evidence for a transition in the source of musicians' support in France at the time of the French Revolution.
...an insightful examination of the years around the French Revolution when the legal protections for music moved from a system of monopolies granted by the sovereign that regulated music as an activity to a framework that assumed music was a kind of property.
Geoffroy-Schwinden has made a big breakthrough in reinterpreting what happened in musical culture during the French Revolution. By digging deep into the social contexts surrounding musical events she demonstrates how musicians reinvented themselves as professional savants to wield a broad new authority.
A pioneering assessment, conjoining musicological assessment with research into professionalisation, institutional history, and cultural history. Geoffroy-Schwinden promises to transform our understanding of a key period in European musical history.
Balancing evocative narratives with historically-informed analysis, Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden brilliantly reveals how French revolutionaries dethroned privilege in the musical world. In its place, they installed music as property. With inventions legally protected and works commercially produced, musicians became professionals. As contemporaries elevated musical monuments to represent national and universal values, the foundations of modern music history took root.
A strength of this book is its fresh use of archives...Her demonstration of...the role of musicians in asserting national glory is the book's most powerful, and at times shocking, contribution.
I think this bottom-up approach is the real stuff of history, so to see a book like this is refreshing. I hope it will inspire more scholars to join in conducting such research.
...to see a book like this is refreshing. I hope it will inspire more scholars to join in conducting such research.
Geoffroy-Schwinden provides a compelling new framework for investigating the politics of music-making in the French Enlightenment, one rooted in the ethics and practices of musicians' labour. This study has the potential permanently to upend our understanding of the musical work in the eighteenth century by offering novel ways of looking at old problems of Revolutionary historiography.
This interesting book provides documentary and archival evidence for a transition in the source of musicians' support in France at the time of the French Revolution.
...an insightful examination of the years around the French Revolution when the legal protections for music moved from a system of monopolies granted by the sovereign that regulated music as an activity to a framework that assumed music was a kind of property.
Geoffroy-Schwinden has made a big breakthrough in reinterpreting what happened in musical culture during the French Revolution. By digging deep into the social contexts surrounding musical events she demonstrates how musicians reinvented themselves as professional savants to wield a broad new authority.
A pioneering assessment, conjoining musicological assessment with research into professionalisation, institutional history, and cultural history. Geoffroy-Schwinden promises to transform our understanding of a key period in European musical history.
Balancing evocative narratives with historically-informed analysis, Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden brilliantly reveals how French revolutionaries dethroned privilege in the musical world. In its place, they installed music as property. With inventions legally protected and works commercially produced, musicians became professionals. As contemporaries elevated musical monuments to represent national and universal values, the foundations of modern music history took root.
A strength of this book is its fresh use of archives...Her demonstration of...the role of musicians in asserting national glory is the book's most powerful, and at times shocking, contribution.
I think this bottom-up approach is the real stuff of history, so to see a book like this is refreshing. I hope it will inspire more scholars to join in conducting such research.
...to see a book like this is refreshing. I hope it will inspire more scholars to join in conducting such research.
Notă biografică
Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden is an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Texas who works on eighteenth-century music cultures and musical labor during the early Age of Revolution.