City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris: Studies in Sensory History
Autor Aimee Boutinen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mai 2015
Beloved
as
the
city
of
light,
Paris
in
the
nineteenth
century
sparked
the
acclaim
of
poets
and
the
odium
of
the
bourgeois
with
its
distinctive
sounds.
Street
vendors
bellowed
songs
known
as
theCris
de
Paristhat
had
been
associated
with
their
trades
since
the
Middle
Ages;
musicians
itinerant
and
otherwise
played
for
change;
and
flâneurs-writers,
fascinated
with
the
city's
underside,
listened
and
recorded
much
about
what
they
heard.
Aimée Boutin tours the sonic space that orchestrated the different, often conflicting sound cultures that defined the street ambience of Paris. Mining accounts that range from guidebooks to verse, Boutin braids literary, cultural, and social history to reconstruct a lost auditory environment. Throughout, impressions of street noise shape writers' sense of place and perception of modern social relations. As Boutin shows, the din of the Cris contrasted economic abundance with the disparities of the capital, old and new traditions, and the vibrancy of street commerce with an increasing bourgeois demand for quiet. In time, peddlers who provided the soundtrack for Paris's narrow streets yielded to modernity, with its taciturn shopkeepers and wide-open boulevards, and the fading songs of the Cris became a dirge for the passing of old ways.
Aimée Boutin tours the sonic space that orchestrated the different, often conflicting sound cultures that defined the street ambience of Paris. Mining accounts that range from guidebooks to verse, Boutin braids literary, cultural, and social history to reconstruct a lost auditory environment. Throughout, impressions of street noise shape writers' sense of place and perception of modern social relations. As Boutin shows, the din of the Cris contrasted economic abundance with the disparities of the capital, old and new traditions, and the vibrancy of street commerce with an increasing bourgeois demand for quiet. In time, peddlers who provided the soundtrack for Paris's narrow streets yielded to modernity, with its taciturn shopkeepers and wide-open boulevards, and the fading songs of the Cris became a dirge for the passing of old ways.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780252039218
ISBN-10: 0252039211
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 22 black and white photographs and 2 music examples
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Studies in Sensory History
ISBN-10: 0252039211
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 22 black and white photographs and 2 music examples
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Studies in Sensory History
Recenzii
"Exploratory
and
rich
in
its
investigation
of
multi-sensory
critical
methods
as
well
as
in
its
pursuit
of
the
auralflaneur."--French
Studies
"In
an
innovative
effort
to
provide
an
auditory
history
of
Paris,
Boutin
mined
the
works
of
19th-century
writers,
poets,
composers,
and
painters
for
descriptions
of
or
images
evoking
thecris
de
Paris.
Recommended."--Choice
"Boutin
convinces
us
both
of
the
possibility
and
the
value
in
probing
the
sounds
of
the
city
of
light
in
the
nineteenth
century."--Nineteenth
Century
Contexts
"Boutin does not shy away from the inevitable tensions between text and context arising from the analysis of literary, journalistic or visual discourse." --Transposition
"Readers from all disciplines will appreciate Boutin's elegant prose and her convincing argument that the City of Light has always been a city of sound."--Canadian Journal of History
"This richly documented and timely book makes an important contribution to studies in sensory history and enriches our understanding of the context in which nineteenth-century French poetry developed, illuminating the visceral shocks of modernity which writers placed at the heart of their work."--Nineteenth Century French Studies
"Boutin provides a particular perspective on comprehending nineteenth-century Paris as a "city of noise," and it is a rich one."--H-France Review
"InCity of Noise, Aimée Boutin raises fresh critical questions about the status of sound, music, and noise that transform our understanding of nineteenth-century Parisian soundscapes. Starting with a familiar nineteenth-century Parisian figure--theflâneur--Boutin turns our attention to an under-explored facet of theflâneur: the sounds and noises encountered on a stroll through the city. Boutin offers lively discussions of rarely considered first-hand accounts of the different types of street music and street cries heard in the Parisian cityscape. By taking the unique perspective of the peddler,City of Noisebrings that world to life in a way that has never been tackled before. Boutin offers a real sense of how noisy Paris was and how these noises affected its citizens and their way of going about their daily business. The vast array of multimedia materials considered here (from poetry to music criticism, to guidebooks and visual sketches) means thatCity of Noisewill be of interest to scholars, students and amateurs of nineteenth-century Paris alike."--Helen Abbott, University of Sheffield
"City of Noisetreats a timely, original, and intellectually rich topic: the street sounds of Paris in the nineteenth century and, no less essential, the experience, meaning, and depiction of those sounds."--James H. Johnson, author ofListening in Paris: A Cultural History
"City of Noiseprovides a fascinating perspective on the evolution of aural modernity in France. This is an important contribution to the interconnected fields of literary studies and history of the senses. Boutin's analysis compels us to tune in the sounds of the past, listen to the music and noise of texts, and hear the streets around us in new ways."--Cheryl Krueger, author ofThe Art of Procrastination: Baudelaire's Poetry in Prose
"This is an excellent and important piece of work, engaging and lucid while still being scholarly."--Richard Cullen Rath, author ofHow Early America Sounded
Notă biografică
Aimée
Boutin
teaches
French
literature
and
culture
in
the
Department
of
Modern
Languages
and
Linguistics
at
Florida
State
University.
She
is
the
author
ofMaternal
Echoes:
The
Poetry
of
Marceline
Desbordes-Valmore
and
Alphonse
de
Lamartine.