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Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction
1 Performance, Rhythm, and the Constitution of Community
2 Singing Democracy: Music and Politics
3 Rameau and Rousseau on Absolute and Relative Value: The Theory/Practice Problem
4 Folk Music: Authenticity, Primitivism, and the Uses of Roots Music
5 Rousseau and Aesthetic Modernity: Music’s Power of Redemption
Conclusion: Rousseau Sings the Blues
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“Julia Simon's Rousseau Among the Moderns is a fabulous book that adds something new and important to the field of Rousseau studies. In the past two decades or so, a number of studies have attempted to bridge a long-standing critical gulf between Rousseau's literary works and his social theory, Simon's included. But hers is perhaps the first study to integrate what are already interdisciplinary readings of works such as The Social Contract, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and Julie with Rousseau's considerable writing about music.”
—Patrick Riley, Colgate University
