Debussy and His World
$88.79
- Paperback
408 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2001
Summary
Claude Debussy’s Paris was factionalized, politicized, and litigious. It was against this background of ferment and change–which characterized French society and music from the Franco-Prussian War to World War I–that Debussy re-thought music. This book captures the complexity of the composer’s restless personal and artistic identity within the new picture emerging of the musical, social, and political world of fin-de-siecle Paris. Debussy’s setting did not simply mold his style. Rather, it…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691090429 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691090424 |
| Author: | Jane Fulcher |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 624g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 152mm |
| Series: | The Bard Music Festival |
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About The Author
Jane Fulcher
Jane F. Fulcher is Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. She is the author of The Nation’s Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art, French Cultural Politics and Music from the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War, and Composers, Intellectuals, and Politics in France from the First to the Second World War (forthcoming). She has served as Directeur d’Etudes Associe at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Directeur de Recherches at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.
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