Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. Johnson recreates the experience of audiences during these rich decades with brio and wit. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the political, musical, and aesthetic factors that produced more engaged listening. Johnson shows the gradual pacification of audiences from loud and unruly listeners to the attentive public we know today.Drawing from a wide range of sources - novels, memoirs, police files, personal correspondence, newspaper reviews, a...
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Street space has inspired much scholarly investigation in the humanities and social sciences, and ha...
Although often thought of as a contemporary practice, audience development and pedagogies for listen...
In eighteenth-century France, music was everywhere. Musical criticism and scores filled journals and...
Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade, e...
International audienceCultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 presents...
London dominated the English musical scene from 1700 to 1850, but provincial listeners were increasi...
The Gilded Age was a time of great cultural prosperity. The New-York Philharmonic and other renowned...
Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music tha...
The social status of singing changed radically over the course of the nineteenth century. During the...
This article presents a historical and theoretical reflection of the théâtrophone, a late nine- teen...
My dissertation connects music, politics, and society by focusing on the cultural life of the Théâtr...
<p>In this dissertation, I argue that musicians began to emerge as a professional class during the F...
Research on cultural consumption and its social conditions mainly focuses on tastes and on products...
When people attend classical music concerts today, they sit and listen in silence, offering no audib...
Post-War of 1812 New York City was hardly prime territory for a musically elaborate, European theatr...
Street space has inspired much scholarly investigation in the humanities and social sciences, and ha...
Although often thought of as a contemporary practice, audience development and pedagogies for listen...
In eighteenth-century France, music was everywhere. Musical criticism and scores filled journals and...
Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade, e...
International audienceCultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 presents...
London dominated the English musical scene from 1700 to 1850, but provincial listeners were increasi...
The Gilded Age was a time of great cultural prosperity. The New-York Philharmonic and other renowned...
Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music tha...
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