America in the French Imaginary, 1789-1914

Introduction

Part I. American liberte, sauvagerie and esclavage
1 Between Amerique and Colonial France: Revolutionary Tales of liberte and esclavage Diana R. Hallman
2 Justamant's Le Bossu and Depictions of Indigenous Americans in Nineteenth-Century French Ballet
Marian Smith, Sarah Gutsche-Miller and Helena Kopchick Spencer
3 Louisiana Imagined: Gender, Race and Slavery in Le Planteur (1839)
Helena Kopchick Spencer

Part II. Myths of America and Intersecting Identities
4 'Brise du Sud': American Identity and War in the Popular Sheet Music of Francophone New Orleans
Charlotte Bentley
5 'The Most Seductive Creole Indolence': Louis Moreau Gottschalk in the French Press
Laura Moore Pruett
6 Symphonies from the New World: The Myths and Realities of American Orchestral Music in France
Douglas Shadle

Part III. Soundscapes and Sonic Fantasies
7 Historical Acoustemology in the French Romantic Travelogue: Chateaubriand's Sonic Imagining of the New World
Ruth E. Rosenberg
8 La Liberte eclairant le monde: Transatlantic Soundscapes for the Statue of Liberty
Annegret Fauser

Part IV. America, Commodification and Race at the fin de siecle9 Buffalo Bill and the Sound of America at the 1889 World's Fair
Mark A. Pottinger
10 Cakewalking in Paris: New Representations and Contexts of African American Culture
Cesar A. Leal

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Index

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• História do século 20: c 1900 a c 2000
• Música romântica (desde ~1830 até ~1900)
• Século 20 e música clássica contemporânea
• Balé
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• Música clássica (desde ~1750 até ~1830)

America; French perspective; music; revolution; race; French imagining; cultural interactions; American history; French culture; musical portrayals