The powers of sound and song in early modern Paris / Nicholas Hammond.

"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 p...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Hammond, Nicholas, 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
Ã2019
Series:Perspectives on sensory history.
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Table of Contents:
  • The sounds of Paris
  • Singers and listeners
  • Informe de tout : sound and power, 1661-1662
  • The death and afterlife of Jacques Chausson
  • Guitaut, Conde, and the Cordon bleu
  • Different worlds.