- Title Pages
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- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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1 Use, the Useful, and Public Utility -
2 Reinscribing the Revolutionary Legacy -
3 Music as Political Culture -
4 Regenerating National Pride -
5 Imagining a New Nation through Music -
6 An Ideology of Diversity, Eclecticism, and Pleasure -
7 Musical Hybridity and the Challenges of Colonialism -
8 Useful Distractions and Economic Liberalism in the Belle Epoque -
9 Music as Resistance and an Emerging Avant-garde -
10 The Symbolic Utility of Music at the 1889 Universal Exhibition -
11 New Alliances and New Music -
12 The Dynamics of Identity and the Struggle for Distinction - Coda
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Appendix A. Important Political and Musical Events In the Early Third Republic -
Appendix B. References in MéNestrelTo Performances of FrenchOpERaS Abroad, 1872–1888 -
Appendix C. Selected Publications On Revolutionary Music After 1870 - Illustrations
- Musical Examples
- Index
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Use, the Useful, and Public Utility
Use, the Useful, and Public Utility
A Theory of Musical Value
- Chapter:
- (p.53) 1 Use, the Useful, and Public Utility
- Source:
- Composing the Citizen
- Author(s):
Jann Pasler
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter is concerned with the concept of usefulness. It tries to determine why this concept is still deeply meaningful in France, and examines the “useful” in music. It studies the tensions that exist between the beautiful and the useful, along with the factors that kept the notion of utility viable, especially in the arts. Finally, the chapter discusses the concept of public utility and its power, and shows how music can be considered as a public utility.
Keywords: usefulness, utility, public utility
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Use, the Useful, and Public Utility -
2 Reinscribing the Revolutionary Legacy -
3 Music as Political Culture -
4 Regenerating National Pride -
5 Imagining a New Nation through Music -
6 An Ideology of Diversity, Eclecticism, and Pleasure -
7 Musical Hybridity and the Challenges of Colonialism -
8 Useful Distractions and Economic Liberalism in the Belle Epoque -
9 Music as Resistance and an Emerging Avant-garde -
10 The Symbolic Utility of Music at the 1889 Universal Exhibition -
11 New Alliances and New Music -
12 The Dynamics of Identity and the Struggle for Distinction - Coda
-
Appendix A. Important Political and Musical Events In the Early Third Republic -
Appendix B. References in MéNestrelTo Performances of FrenchOpERaS Abroad, 1872–1888 -
Appendix C. Selected Publications On Revolutionary Music After 1870 - Illustrations
- Musical Examples
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
