Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I FROM A CONTESTED PEACE TO A POLITICALLY PEACEFUL WAR; Musical Pleasures, Pedagogy, and Politics; A Chorus in Unison: The Ritual of National Mobilization; PART II CONFLICTING AGENDAS; The Censorship of Singing, from Music Hall to Trench; The Eroticization of War: Representations of Sexuality and Violence; PART III THE CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF WAR; Musical Entertainment in Wartime Paris; The French Army's "Theater of War"; Entertainment at the Front: The Soldiers Go It Alone; The Reinternationalization of Mass Culture and the Turn to Nostalgia; Conclusion; Appendix A: Examples of Sheet Music; Appendix B: List of Musical Establishments Open during the War; Notes; Selected Biography; Index.

About the Author

Regina Sweeney is an independent scholar specializing in the study of French history, music, and war.

Reviews

"This book represents a new generation of historical writing on France at the turn of the century. Not only does it examine a subject never before studied in any detail, it uses solid scholarship and imaginative archival research to explore what are essentially postmodern questions."-Jann Pasler, Professor of Music, University of California at San Diego"