Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Musical Apprehensions; Part I Apprehending Other Worlds: Musical Journeys in New and Old Empires; 1 Imperial Ears: G.A. Villoteau and Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign (1798-1801); 2 The Music of France's Lost Empire and the Romantic Travelogue; Part II Apprehending France: The Meaning of Folksong Within and Without; 3 Between Paris and the Provinces: Ideologies of Song and Folksong Collection; 4 France's Furies: Women's Laments and the Imagination of Corsica; Bibliography
Summary
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 ethnographie musicale in France and narratives of musical encounter found in French trave
