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Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris

  • ISBN-13: 9780271084725
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Nicholas Hammond
  • Price: AUD $71.99
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  • Local release date: 02/12/2020
  • Format: Paperback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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An interpretation of early modern Paris demonstrating that sound was as important as vision during the reign of Louis XIV. Discloses myriad ways in which sound generated an interpenetration of elite and popular culture, revealing complex acoustic dimensions of class, politics, sexuality, and punishment.


List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

Introduction

Part I: The Power of Sound

1. The Sounds of Paris

2. Singers and Listeners

3. Informé de tout: Sound and Power, 1661–1662

Part II: Chausson’s Song

4. The Death and Afterlife of Jacques Chausson

5. Guitaut, Condé, and the Cordon bleu

6. Different Worlds

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index



“An important, absorbing, and astonishingly original book. While scholars have long focused on the visual aspects of French absolutism, Hammond offers an entirely new interpretation by turning his attention to the auditory worlds of early modern Paris. Examining a wide range of acoustic experiences and representations, from songs to remonstrations, the book shows that sound played a crucial role in shaping identities at all social levels. As Hammond traces these acoustic echoes of the past, he creates a gripping narrative that deepens our understanding of class, politics, sexuality, and punishment in seventeenth-century Parisian culture.”

—Peter Denney, Griffith University

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