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City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris: Studies in Sensory History

Autor Aimee Boutin
en 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.
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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


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.