From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780197511510 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 336 str.

Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden

Recenzje

Balancing evocative narratives with historically-informed analysis, Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden brilliantly reveals how French revolutionaries dethroned privilege in the musical world. In its place, they installed music as property. With inventions legally protected and works commercially produced, musicians became professionals. As contemporaries elevated musical monuments to represent national and universal values, the foundations of modern music history took root.

O autorze

Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden is an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Texas who works on eighteenth-century music cultures and musical labor during the early Age of Revolution.