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Singing the English - Britain in the French Musical Lowbrow, 1870-1904 (Hardcover)
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Singing the English - Britain in the French Musical Lowbrow, 1870-1904 (Hardcover)
Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Late nineteenth-century France was a nation undergoing an identity
crisis: the uncertain infancy of the Third Republic and shifting
alliances in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War forced France to
interrogate the fundamental values and characteristics at the heart
of its own national identity. Music was central to this national
self-scrutiny. It comes as little surprise to us that Oriental
fears, desires, and anxieties should be a fundamental part of this,
but what has been overlooked to date is that Britain, too, provided
a thinking space in the French musical world; it was often -
surprisingly and paradoxically - represented through many of the
same racialist terms and musical tropes as the Orient. However, at
the same time, its shared history with France and the explosions of
colonial rivalry between the two nations introduced an ever-present
tension into this musical relationship. This book sheds light on
this forgotten musical sphere through a rich variety of
contemporary sources. It visits the cafe-concert and its tradition
of 'Englishing up' with fake hair, mocking accents, and
unflattering dances; it explores the reactions, both musical and
physical, to British evangelical bands as they arrived in the
streets of France and the colonies; it considers the French
reception of, and fascination with, folk music from Ireland and
Scotland; and it confronts the culture shock felt by French
visitors to Britain as they witnessed British music-making for the
first time. Throughout, it examines the ways in which this music
allowed French society to grapple with the uncertainty of late
nineteenth-century life, providing ordinary French citizens with a
means of understanding and interrogating both the Franco-British
relationship and French identity itself.
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