Fanfare for a City

Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris

Jacek Blaszkiewicz

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University of California Press
05 March 2024

Music; Music reviews & criticism; European history; Urban & municipal planning

"Fanfare for a City 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, cafés, streets, and markets, Jacek Blaszkiewicz shows how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about le nouveau Paris: 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, Fanfare for a City argues that urbanism was a driving force in how nineteenth-century music was produced, performed, and policed."

By: Jacek Blaszkiewicz
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520393479
ISBN 10: 0520393473
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 05 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of Illustrations and Musical Examples Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Baron Haussmann’s Musical Imagination 2 • Fanfare City: The Expositions universelles 3 • Urban Planning Lessons from the Café-Concert 4 • Street Music: Between Regulation and Liberation 5 • Street Cries: Constructing the Old City Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Jacek Blaszkiewicz is Assistant Professor of Music History at Wayne State University. His articles on French music and urban culture have appeared in 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Current Musicology, Journal of Musicology, and Opera Quarterly.