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Staging the French Revolution
Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794
Mark Darlow
432 pages
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20 b&w illustrations and eight musical examples
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235x156mm
978-0-19-977372-5
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Hardback
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21 June 2012
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- Visit the companion website
- Takes innovative quantitative, social scientific approach to musicology
- Presents first full-length study of opera's central role in the developmental of French socio-political thought in the Revolutionary era
- Offers an unprecedented view of the material context of opera production
Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of longer-scale structures of continuity or rupture in aesthetics. Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 moves these discussions boldly forward, focusing on the Paris Opéra (Académie Royale de Musique) in the cultural and political context of the early French Revolution. Both institutional history and cultural study, this is the first ever full-scale study of the
Revolution and lyric theatre. The book concentrates on three aspects of how a royally-protected theatre negotiates the transition to national theatre: the external dimension, such as questions of ownership and governance and the institution's relationship with State institutions and popular assemblies; the internal management, finances, selection and preparation of works; and the cultural and aesthetic study of the works themselves and of their reception.
In Staging the French Revolution, author Mark Darlow offers an unprecedented view of the material context of opera production, combining in-depth archival research with a study of the works themselves. He argues that a mixture of popular and State interventions created a repressive system in which cultural
institutions retained agency, compelling individuals to follow and contribute to a shifting culture. Theatre thereby emerged as a locus for competing discourses on patriotism, society, the role of the arts in the Republic, and the articulation of the Revolution's relation with the 'Old Regime', and is thus an essential key to the understanding of public opinion and publicity at this crucial historical moment. Combining recent approaches to institutions, sociability, and authors' rights with cultural studies of opera, Staging the French Revolution takes a historically grounded and methodologically innovative cross-disciplinary approach to opera and persuasively re-evaluates the long-standing, but rather sterile, concept of
propaganda.Readership: Students and scholars of French culture, French history, eighteenth-century opera, musicology, and cultural policy studies.
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Mark Darlow, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Cambridge Mark Darlow is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Cambridge and was previously Lecturer at the University of Nottingham. He studied at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the Ecole normale supérieure, Paris.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Sigla and Abbreviations
Note on Abbreviations
Chapter 1: The outlook in 1789
Chapter 2: From crown to town: Governance of the Opéra, March 1789 - April 1790
Chapter 3: Control by the Municipality: April 1790-April 1792
Chapter 4: The Opéra during the Terror
Chapter 5: Finances and repertory
Chapter 6 : Tragedy and serious works
Chapter 7: Comic and mixed works
Chapter 8: Republican repertory (1792-1794)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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