Book 2020

Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Language: English
Published: 2020

Songs, french
Paris (france), history
France, civilization
Music, history and criticism
French Songs
History and criticism
City sounds
History

"An interpretation of early modern Paris demonstrating that sound was as important as vision during the reign of Louis XIV. Discloses myriad ways in which sound generated an interpenetration of elite and popular culture, revealing complex acoustic dimensions of class, politics, sexuality, and punishment"--