Music, the Market, and the Marvellous : Parisian Feerie, 1864-1900 Hardback
by Tommaso (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Sabbatini
Part of the British Academy Monographs series
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Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines féerie, the French fairy play, in the last third of the nineteenth century.
It is among the first book-length studies on the genre, the first in a language other than French, and the first from a musicological perspective.
Sabbatini demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, féerie was still thriving during the fin de siècle, giving rise to innovations such as composerly féerie and scientific féerie.
The plays, the theatre industry, and urban geography are discussed together, as befits a commercial genre where the marvellous was shaped by the market.
Recovering this forgotten ^—^ but once hugely influential ^—^ repertoire provides an occasion to rethink generic taxonomies of Parisian theatre and the ontology of nineteenth-century 'popular' theatre.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 31 images, 11 musical examples
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:13/06/2024
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- ISBN:9780197267738
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Pre-OrderFree UK DeliveryThis title is available for pre-order
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 31 images, 11 musical examples
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:13/06/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780197267738
