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Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris
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Jacek Blaszkiewicz

Fanfare for a City

Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris

Jacek Blaszkiewicz

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English
University of California Press
08 November 2023
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.
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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
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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.

Reviews for Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris

""Overall, for the Francophile, re­searcher of urban studies, curious traveler, or musicologist (including college or university music history in­structors), Blaszkiewicz provides an en­lightening look at nineteenth-century Paris in a way not often considered…Blaszkiewicz’s study, utilizing Second Empire monumentality and spectacle as a jumping off point, chal­lenges readers to consider Paris at the street level by imagining and listening to the voices and the stories of those who made the city “the city” and who brushed up against the barrier be­tween old and new Paris"" * Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association *


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