Music Travel and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France

<p>This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists memoirists and other musical travelers in 19th-century France. Each of the book’s discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site of empire examining French representations of musical encounters in North America the Middle East as well as in contested areas within the borders of metropolitan France. Rosenberg highlights intersections between an emergent <i>ethnographie musicale </i>in France and narratives of musical encounter found in French travel literature connecting both phenomena to France’s imperial aspirations and nationalist anxieties in the period from the Revolution to the late-nineteenth century. It is therefore an excellent research tool for scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology musicology cultural studies literary history and postcolonial studies. </p>